Bill Gates Quotes
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I think business is very simple. Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward.
Bill Gates
Some of us still remember how cool it felt to be able to carry your own transistor radio around and listen to whatever music you wanted, wherever you were.
Bill Gates
Part of the beauty of research is getting the greatest minds together without any deadline.
Bill Gates
If you do the right things, you get the people working together the right way, there’s no better investment than great research work.
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We can tackle big horizons. We’re expected to tackle big horizons. We love big horizons.
Bill Gates
You always have to be thinking about who is coming to get you.
Bill Gates
What interests me isn’t making money…
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If I had to choose between my job and having great wealth, I’d choose the job.
Bill Gates
It’s a much bigger thrill to lead a team of thousands of talented, bright people than it is to have a big bank account.
Bill Gates
I don’t have any money; I have stock.
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One thing is for sure. I won’t leave a lot of money to my heirs because I don’t think it would be good for them.
Bill Gates
My kids will have computers, of course. But they will have books first.
Bill Gates
I’m in awe of the brain and it’s ability to learn. I’m fascinated by such things as how a child picks up languages, by mental disorders such as autism, and by the role of the limbic brain in letting aromas trigger mood changes.
Bill Gates
I would say nature has done a good job making child-raising more pleasure than pain, since that is necessary for a species to survive.
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The future is what matters, which is why I don’t look back too often.
Bill Gates
[On failure] When I was young I wanted to be the world’s best chess player and, of course, I didn’t succeed. I wanted to be the world’s best Go player, too. I wanted to keep IBM in a happy partnership with Microsoft, and that didn’t work out either. There are people I wanted to hire whom I couldn’t. So I’ve had plenty of disappointments.
Bill Gates
I don’t waste time ruing the past.
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The way to do it best is, once you make it, you just don’t waver at all.
Bill Gates
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
Life is not fair. Get used to it… Be nice to nerds. Chance are you’ll end up working for one.
Bill Gates
People like Chuck Feeney have done amazing things.
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People like Chuck Feeney who’s given almost everything away. That’s quite a phenomenal story.
Bill Gates
My dad has set an example by what he does…
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My dad is somebody I aspire to live up to what he’s done.
Bill Gates
[On his school getting their first dumb terminal] We got basically addicted, and kept learning more. So it was a phenomenal opportunity.
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When we did the first Basic, there was no looking back…
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[On his mother extending an invitation to come along to a meet some guests at Bainbridge Island including Warren Buffett] Mother, that’s a Friday. On Friday we work at Microsoft.
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[On his mother persisting that he should come along to Bainbridge Island] OK, OK, I’ll come over for a couple of hours in the afternoon. [He came for a couple of hours, and didn’t leave.]
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[On meeting Warren Buffett] It was one of the luckiest things that ever happened to me.
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[Especially at a young age] I do think some positive reinforcement of… you’re clever, you can do these things… takes you a long way.
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[In September 2009] This is a great time to be a curious person.
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[In 2009] I think there’s more innovation going on today than ever.
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We build off the past.
Bill Gates
I don’t want to overload people with my optimism…
Bill Gates
A lot of global health works by trickle down where you invent stuff for the rich world.
Bill Gates
When you have a disease that’s not in the rich countries, the poor countries don’t trust themselves to approve things.
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[In 2011] Only when we learned about health having this effect of reducing family size we thought, oh, wow, we can get involved in this…
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[In 2011] If you have a vaccine that could make parents read books to their kids… That would… be catalytic.
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[On change] When push comes to shove, the power of the status quo is very, very strong.
Bill Gates
[In 2011] We need better ideas to make the incentive for the inventors to come up with things that save costs.
Bill Gates
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