Bill Gates Quotes
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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There's something healing about tears.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
