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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 16

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I'm not a macroeconomics person.

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

Macroeconomics, Persons

"Fareed Zakaria GPS". transcripts.cnn.com. February 3, 2013.

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

Team, Commitment, Organization

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Notebook, Technology, Matter

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

Communication, Marketing, Dollars

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Believe, Thinking, Decision

"Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Thinking, Hands, Years

"Q&A: Gates talks about letting go, the future and the foundation". Interview with Todd Bishop and Tom Paulson, www.seattlepi.com. June 23, 2008.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Inspirational, Life, Education

Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.

Soccer, Kids, Talking

"More Than a Goal: End Polio" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

Technology, Dependent

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

Daughter, Horse, Fun

"Hello Reddit – I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Microsoft founder. Ask me anything". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.

Moving, Technology, Reality

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

Imagination, Microsoft, Factories

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

Mean, Management, Ends

Change the boundaries of business.

Boundaries

I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Twenties, Kind, Intense

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

Summer, Thinking, Average

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

People, Pumps, Incredibles

Success is a lousy teacher.

Teacher

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Business, Thinking, Games

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Pieces, Rewriting, Form

In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.

People, Important, Today

Source: thesource.com

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Creating, Design, Competition

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Business, Engineering, Wonder

"The secret of Bill Gates' success" by Charles Miller, news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

Thinking, Play, Long

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