Bill Gates Quotes
1003 Bill Gates Quotes
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We hire people who are intellectually curious…
Bill Gates
The great thing about a computer notebook, is that that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.
Bill Gates
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
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Do people all over my company feel free to send me e-mail because we believe in a flat organization? Or do we have a flat organization because people have always been able to send e-mail directly to me?
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[In 1999] In three years every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we’ll make them obsolete or somebody else will.
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[In 1999] I see us as an underdog today, just as I’ve seen us as an underdog every day for the last twenty years. If we don’t maintain that perspective, some competitor will eat our lunch.
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Think, act, evaluate, adapt.
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Analysis is only as good as your ability to execute…
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Power comes not from knowledge kept, but from knowledge shared.
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[On Steve Jobs] He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works.
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[In 2008] This is how I see the world, and it should make one thing clear: I am an optimist. But I am an impatient optimist.
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[In 2003] A breakthrough is something that changes the behavior of hundreds of millions of people where, if you took it away from them, they’d say, ‘You can’t take that away from me.’ Breakthroughs are critical for us. All we get paid for are breakthroughs, because people who have our software today can keep using it forever and not pay us another dime.
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[In 2008] This whole thing about which operating system somebody uses is a pretty silly thing versus issues involving starvation or death.
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[In 1998] When your own government sues you, it’s not a pleasant experience.
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We empower people to make decisions themselves.
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It’s important to set examples.
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[In 2008] People tend to overestimate what can change in a year or two, and they underestimate… that can take place in a 10 or 15 year period.
Rationality only goes so far.
Bill Gates
I believe in intensity.
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[In 2006] The world has had a tendency to focus a disproportionate amount of attention on me.
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Knowledge is the ultimate power tool.
Bill Gates
As a student I took notes with either hand, using my right hand when I was bored and wanted a small challenge.
Bill Gates
Growing up, my parents always encourage us to read a lot and think for ourselves. They included us in discussions on everything from books to politics. In the summer, we’d go up to Hood Canal where our family and several other families who gathered there every year would play a lot of competitive games – relay races, egg tosses, Capture the Flag. It was always a great time, and it gave all of us a sense that we could compete and succeed.
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[During grade 9 and 10] I swore off computers for about a year and a half… I tried to be normal, the best I could.
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I didn’t see myself as a hacker forever.
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[On leaving Harvard University] I did it only because I had an idea – founding the first microcomputer software company – that couldn’t wait.
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Our slogan from the very beginning was ‘A computer on every desk and in every home.’
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Life for us was working and maybe going to a movie and then working some more.
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You should understand your circle of competence, the thing that you’re good at, and spend your time and energy there.
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I approach business as a kind of problem-solving challenge.
Bill Gates
Life’s a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
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Smart people ought to be able to figure things out, if they get enough facts.
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Young people are more willing to learn, come up with new ideas.
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I have never used a pocket protector…
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When I was preparing to take my company public, I arranged to distribute an unusually large share of ownership to employees. It was a way of letting them know how much their performance mattered.
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The flip slide of rewarding performance is making sure that employees who don’t contribute are carefully managed or reassigned. Employees need to see that their peers are really strong and that if something isn’t carrying his or her weight, an adjustment will be made.
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I know that my climaxes are ahead of me, not just behind me.
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A little blindness is necessary when you undertake a risk.
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The products that comprise 80 percent of our revenue I choose to understand very, very deeply.
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I like pushing things to the edge. That’s often where you find high performance.
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