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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 7

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My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Dream, Children, School

"A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Money, Business, Intellectual

Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life.

Hands, World, Forget

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Leader, Problem, Approach

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

World, Disease, Poverty

"Bill Gates: No more poor countries by 2035" by Simeon Bennett and Laura Marcinek, www.sfgate.com. January 21, 2014.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

Thinking, Years, Gaps

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

Atheism, Church, Elements

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Tools, Problem, Solutions

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Life, Education, Real

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Events, Prime, Ability

I reboot [my Windows PC] every night.

Night, Window, Every Night

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Income, Taxes, Income Tax

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Inspirational, Morning, Atheist

Bill Gates, Janet Lowe (1998). “Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

Doe, Needs, Banking

If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.

Technology, Organization, Volunteer

"A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Money, Business, Apples

"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Ironic, Microsoft, Exam

If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!

Fun, School, Waiting

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

Powerful, Believe, People

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Years, Sick, Killing Each Other

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

People, Talent, Someday

"A Philanthropist, Technology Pioneer, and Multi-Billionaire". Interview with Olivia Pineda, mag.amazing-kids.org. 2010.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Progressive, Made, Should

"This Week" with Michele Bachmann, abcnews.go.com. October 30, 2011.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

Poverty, Intervention, Improving

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

World, Disease, Tough

"Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". "Sanjay Gupta, MD.", www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.

Judging, People, Accomplishment

Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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