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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

  

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

  

  Carl Levin
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• It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
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• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Trying
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  • Me

• 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