Bill Gates Quotes
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be air-tight alibis to explain away their own lack of achievement.
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My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
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No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
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To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
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I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people say, "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."
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Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
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I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
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Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
