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.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Die
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Mary Kay Ash
  • Action
  • Failure

• The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Velocity

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Believe
  • Air

• My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Kids
  • Die
  • Trust

• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Reason
  • Sympathy
  • Crowd

• 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.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Middle-class
  • Administered

• To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Color
  • Diversity
  • Lifestyle

• I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • People
  • Movement
  • Technologies

• 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."

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Career
  • Vacation
  • Focused

• 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?

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Think
  • Dancing
  • Summer Camp

• 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.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Fame

• Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Sometimes
  • See
  • Right

• My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!

  

  Wyatt Earp
  • Name
  • Ends

• Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Today
  • Caring
  • Preparation

• Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

  

  William Mortensen
  • Language
  • Communication
  • Photography

• If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Wealthy
  • Balance out