Bill Gates Quotes
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We in Microsoft are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.
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Warren Buffett met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things.
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The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.
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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
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Taxes are an investment in America.
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I don't think culture is something you can describe.
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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.
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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
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Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
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The mainstream is always under attack.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
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Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
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There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business...
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I spend a lot of time reading.