Bill Gates Quotes
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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993...
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
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In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.
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We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.
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China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
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Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.
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When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.
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It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
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If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA personal digital assistant as we are.
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It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
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I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.
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Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
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Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
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Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.
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In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.