Bill Gates Quotes
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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.
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In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
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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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At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.
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The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.
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My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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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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Our leadership in Microsoft has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
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The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
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It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
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I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
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Your customers get better when you do.
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How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role.
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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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I reboot my Windows PC every night.
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I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.
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Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.