Bill Gates Quotes

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Bill Gates

• Twenties
• Day Off
• Fanatical

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• Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.

  

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• I suppose in some ways that's why my collaborations worked out, because I would go in the studio with such enthusiasm and it would never be a chore for me. I was never itching for the process to be done so we could get out live. It's a different matter for me now. Now I've noticed that I actually have one eye or one ear on how I'm going to do it on stage. And maybe that's because I'm the frontman in the group; I do believe that any good frontman should be impatient in the studio to get out.

  

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• To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

  

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• What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.

  

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• It's definitely a relief that it's over. It's been a long season for us, with ups and downs. But we're going to put it behind us now and we've got to try and be a better team.

  

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• He always said nobody is promised tomorrow, and he lived life to the fullest. I do that. You can't take life for granted, and Puck never did. I'm real glad I was his teammate. He taught me everything I know about how to act, how to carry yourself, on and off the field.

  

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• Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.

  

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• Life's too short to wear high heels.

  

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• In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

  

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• Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

  

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• The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.

  

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• After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

  

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• It seems to me that self confidence and the ability to stand one's ground are essential if we want to succeed in life. I am not talking of stupid self-assurance but of an awareness of our inner potential, a certainty that we can always correct our behavior, improve ourselves, enrich ourselves, and that things are never hopeless

  

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• I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

  

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• All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

  

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  • Relationship
  • Existence

• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Twenties
  • Day Off
  • Fanatical