Bill Gates Quotes
1003 Bill Gates Quotes
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I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success.
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The barrier to change is not too little caring, it is too much complexity.
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Measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts.
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I love getting people excited about software…
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My mother… never stopped pressing me to do more for others.
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[In 2007 to a younger generation] You have more than we had. You must start sooner, and carry on longer.
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This is the stupidest piece of code ever written.
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I thought law would be fun…
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A computer on every desktop, and Microsoft software in every computer.
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[On Microsoft’s relationship with IBM] We enjoyed a really unique relationship.
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We were the only vendor that understood what the project was about.
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The mind has a lot of unused bandwidth.
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[On Windows in October 1984] It will be a significant advancement of the state of the art.
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[On developers at Microsoft being reviewed every six months by their peers and those in the bottom five percent being fired.] There are other jobs out there. If they don’t have what it takes to work at Microsoft, they can go to Boeing or back East.
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Being successful is not a fun thing sometimes. There is just a phenomenon where people don’t like a company as successful as ours.
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Ask any Wall Street analyst which company never over promises what’s going to happen, always talks up the risks in their business and takes the long-term approach. It’s Microsoft.
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I have an infinite amount of money. I would still order the same hamburger.
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I’ll ship my stuff before they ship theirs.
Bill Gates
[When running late for a meeting at a downtown Sheraton Hotel with friend Heidi Roizen suggesting they use the hotel’s valet parking.] Yeah, but it’s $12 and that’s not good value. [‘I’ll pay the $12.’ – Heidi Roizen] That’s not the point. They overcharge for parking.
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[In the early 90’s] Computers are not very easy to use. We don’t have information at our fingertips.
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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…
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[At the 25th anniversary of the University of Washington’s computer science department] We’re scared all the time. We’re always saying, ‘Is this the day we’ve reached our peak?
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Most business problems are information problems…
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Do we practice what we preach?
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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is.
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An old business joke says that if the railroads had understood they were in the transportation business instead of the steel-rail business, we’d all be flying on Union Pacific Airlines.
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An unsuccessful maker of Japan’s first electric rice cooker became Sony Corporation…
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A company should not take its position in the market for granted. A company should constantly re-evaluate.
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Information is thinking work.
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[In 1999] We need to break out of the mind-set that getting information and moving information around is difficult and expensive.
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People like knowing that something they’re doing is working…
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Good meetings are the result of good preparation.
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No company will prosper for long if products don’t go out the door or if the bills and the employees don’t get paid.
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If consultants get more insight from your systems than you do, it should be because of their unique abilities, not because you prepare information especially for the consultants that isn’t otherwise available to your staff.
Bill Gates
It wasn’t a matter of luck…
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[In 1999 on employee reviews] Microsoft managers used to spend more time on the paperwork for reviews than on the reviews themselves.
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Imagine true digital ink, where you can make a picture and hang the display on your wall.
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The middleman must add value.
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Every company that touches a consumer electronically has to build products that work intuitively.
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You only get one chance to make a good first impression.
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