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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

Bill Gates
Class, Focus, World

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

Bill Gates
Success, Focus, Focus In Business
"One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

Bill Gates
Team, Focus, Unity

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

Bill Gates
Engineering, Focus, Important
Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.61, Hachette UK

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates
Growing Up, Focus, Ems

I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Bill Gates
Focus, Use, Calendars

It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates
Educational, People, Focus
"Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Bill Gates
Jobs, People, Focus
"The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" by Matt Weinberger, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2017,.

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

Bill Gates
Dark, Focus, Secret

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