Bill Gates Quotes

To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

Bill Gates

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Woman
  • Emotional

• I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

  

  Vince Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Future
  • Energy

• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Country
  • Man

• I was always very focused on how people dressed.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • Always
  • Dressed

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Never

• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Vision
  • Internet

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

  

  Patricia Rae
  • People
  • Myself
  • Grace

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Learn
  • Organization

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• I don't particularly care to know the names of the people in the Freedom Caucus.

  

  Lois Frankel
  • People
  • Freedom

• Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • World
  • Turns

• It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• My sister Naomi and I always wanted to go to Tahiti. We planned a fantastic holiday to visit several islands, but at the last moment, Naomi cancelled. It was the first time I'd holidayed alone, and it was absolutely the best.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Sister

• When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Remember
  • Team
  • Football

• To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Different
  • Imagination