Bill Gates Quotes

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • America
  • Movement

• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • School
  • You
  • Popular

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • May
  • High
  • Honor

• I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • You
  • Treat

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • News

• You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Stop
  • Organize

• I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Love
  • Bad

• Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Father
  • Soul

• I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

  

  Denise Mina
  • People
  • Book
  • Clever

• We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Sociable