Bill Gates Quotes

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Bill Gates

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• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Habit
  • Habits
  • Trail

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

  Lance Secretan
  • Up
  • Picture
  • Commitment

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Present
  • Like

• The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

  

  Adam Green
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Truth Is

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Best

• Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • You
  • Audience

• I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.

  

  Ben Schwalb
  • Hand
  • Beer
  • Pry

• The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Yankees

• When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Past

• Stubborn people make the best lovers. You tell them no, they say yes, you tell them get lost, they hang around, you get a restraining order, they get a megaphone...Eventually you have to kill them or marry them.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Kill
  • Lovers
  • Marry

• The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Mother

• If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Mistakes
  • Mess Up
  • Parent`s fault