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Bill Gates Quotes - Page 8

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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Meaningful, Jobs, Distance

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.12, Hachette UK

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

People, Microsoft, Company

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Simple, Magic, Enough

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Technology, Automation, Efficiency

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

I think there will be PCs at every price point.

Thinking

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

Live Your Life, Computer, Humans

Source: thesource.com

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

Jobs, Hardest Job, Way

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

Crazy, Hard Work, Men

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Business, Technology, Squares

1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Inspiring, Success, Business

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Success, Money, Business

"Welcome to the greatest rock concert in the world" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

Success, Marketing, Network Marketing

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Success, Suffering, Poor

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.

Work, People, Giving

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Success, Political, Investing

"Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip". www.reuters.com. March 21, 2007.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Jobs, Wall, Ties

This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

Crazy, Networking, Social

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Science, Technology, Innovation

When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so.

Rip, Car, Different

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

Strong, Stolen, Owners

"Bill Gates on … the Competition". Interview with Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, www.wsj.com. June 19, 2006.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Islands, Two, Events

"Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

Successful, Long, Add

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Library, Computer, Phenomenon

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

Writing, Thinking, Trying

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Views, Library, Investing

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