Bill Gates Quotes
The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.
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It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
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It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
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When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.
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More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
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The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.
