Bill Gates Quotes
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Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.
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The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
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I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role.
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
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In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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There is this thing called the GPL Gnu Public Licence, which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.
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Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.
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See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success...
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I get more spam than anyone I know.
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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
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A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
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There's life and death in every email.
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
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We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.
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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
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There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.