Bill Gates Quotes
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.
Quotes to Explore
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
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The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.
