Bill Gates Quotes
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Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
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I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
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Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.
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The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
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Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
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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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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
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Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you...
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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.
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I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.