Bill Gates Quotes

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Bill Gates

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Explain

• If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

  

  Marc Chagall

• Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

  

  Liz Williams

• Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Business

• It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Character
  • Job

• Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Long

• I love Italian food.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Food
  • Italian

• The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Age

• A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

  

  John C. Maxwell

• I got into a fight with a kid in junior high, and then we became friends after that.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Friends
  • High

• Part of what dressing for yourself means requires your understanding that the scrutiny of others is frankly irrelevant.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Understanding

• There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Up
  • Law
  • Space

• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Age
  • Father
  • Sad

• Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Different
  • Superman
  • Batman

• The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Free

• I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • America
  • Clothes
  • Helps

• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Job
  • Creation
  • Productivity

• For every challenge we face - unemployment, poverty, crime, income growth, income inequality, productivity, competitiveness - a great education is a major component of the solution.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Great
  • Education
  • Challenge

• In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Productivity