Bill Gates Quotes
1003 Bill Gates Quotes
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[Before being married] Kids are a problem. Babies are a subset.
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We have this vision of where we are trying to go, and we’re a long ways from it.
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[On what it felt like to be the chairman of the world’s largest software company] You gotta watch out for the anticlimax.
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We are not on top of the networking heap, or the spreadsheet heap, or the word processing heap. Computers are not very easy to use. We don’t have information at our fingertips. There is one thing that is fun – I look out there and see fun people to work with, who are learning a lot. That’s cool, and that feels good, but we’re not on top. Yes, our revenues are bigger than anybody else’s but if we don’t run fast and do good things…
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Believe me, starting out the window and saying ‘Isn’t this great’ is not the solution to pushing things forward… You’ve got to keep driving hard.
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[On suggestions that take over and become the IBM chairman in 1993] Microsoft faces a lot of challenges itself, and I feel I need to help.
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[To Microsoft Executive Jonathan Lazarus in 1993] You seem to like married life, so that’s a good sign that independent types like you can make it work.
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[After getting married to Melinda Gates in 1993] If anybody thinks being married is going to lessen my intensity, they are in for a surprise!
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[In 1999] Business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty.
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How can technology help you run your business better?
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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly the nature of business will change. About how quickly business itself will be transacted.
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A manufacturer or retailer that responds to changes in sales in hours instead of weeks is no longer at heart a product company, but a service company that has a product offering.
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[In 1999] We’ve been in the Information Age for about thirty years, but because most of the information moving among businesses has remained in paper form, the process of buyers finding sellers remains unchanged.
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[In 1999] Too many senior managers seem to take the absence of timely information as a given.
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The ‘personal’ in personal computer means that individual knowledge workers have a powerful tool for analysing and using the information delivered by these solutions.
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[In 1999] Within a decade most people will regularly use PCs at work and at home, they’ll use e-mail routinely, they’ll be connected to the Internet, they’ll carry digital devices containing their personal and business information.
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[At Microsoft in 1999] Replacing paper processes with collaborative digital processes has cut weeks out of our budgeting and other operational processes.
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[In 1999] The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work.
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Information flow is your lifeblood.
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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd, is to do an outstanding job with information.
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How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
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If you do enough things poorly, you’ll go out of business.
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A company that began by opportunistically making welding machines, bowling alley sensors, and weight-reduction machines moved on to oscilloscopes and computers, becoming the Hewlett Packard we know today.
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When you look at your existing business, it’s not always clear where the next growth opportunity is.
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[In 1999] A market analyst recently suggested that McDonald’s flip its business model. Referring to the company’s occasional promotion of movie-inspired toys, the analyst said that McDonald’s should use its low-margin burgers to sell a line of high-margin toys instead of the other way round.
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The critical thing is that a company’s managers have the information to understand their competitive edge and what their next great market could be.
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Information technology gives you access to the data that leads to insights into your business.
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Information technology enables you to act quickly.
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[In 1999 on ‘My Years with General Motors’ by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.] If you read only one book on business, read Sloan’s.
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Positive, rational, information-focused leadership can lead to extraordinary success.
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[On Microsoft in 1999] We made a point of moving into international markets as early as possible…
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If information management and organizational responsiveness made such a fundamental difference in a traditional smokestack industry seventy years ago, how much more difference will they make propelled by technology?
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Today bank information systems have to do more than manage huge amounts of financial data. They have to put more intelligence about customers into the hands of business strategists and loan officers.
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Information systems are no longer only about back-end number-crunching. They’re about enabling information to be put to work on behalf of the consumer.
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[In 1999] They said, ‘We don’t want to pick up the additional cost and complexity of still another interface.’ I told them the solution was simple: They should build a great interface for customers to see data over the Internet, then use the same interface to view data internally.
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It takes brains to understand the physics and develop the underlying calculations for the arcs of artillery projectiles or ballistic missiles; it takes an idiot savant – a computer – to do the calculations in an instant.
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To think, act, react, and adapt.
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To do information work, people in the company have to have ready access to information.
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A company’s middle managers and line employees, not just its high-level executives, need to see business data.
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It’s the middle managers in every company who need to understand where their profits and losses lie, what marketing programs are working or not, and what expenses are in line or out of whack.
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