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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 10

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Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

Change, Negative, Needs

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Opportunity, Hands, Library

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

Thinking, Choices, Succeed

We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.

Technology

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Cutting, People, Dying

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

College, Skills, People

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Life, Success, Education

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

World, Investment, Improving

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

Success, Ideas, Satisfaction

"Bill Gates lambasts D.C. dysfunction" by Jessica Meyers, www.politico.com. March 13, 2013.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Money, Business, Technology

80 Microcomputing Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, features.slashdot.org. 1980.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

Business, Effort, Challenges

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?

Silly, Dumb, Mind

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Growing Up, Dad, Volunteer

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

People, Income, Want

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Real, Culture, Geek

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

Inspirational, Vision, Changed

The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly.

Competition, Can Do

I think of myself as a global citizen.

Thinking, Citizens, Global Citizen

Source: thesource.com

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Success, Business, Technology

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Microsoft, Toppers, Company

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

"The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" by John Heilemann, www.wired.com. November 1, 2000.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

Technology, Practice, Differences

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Discovery, Humanity, Disparity

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Mainstream

Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Running, Country, Poor

"Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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