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Bill Gates Quotes about Giving

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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Inspirational, People, Giving

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

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Giving, Information, Edges

"The New Road Ahead". www.microsoft.com. December 2005.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

Years, Giving, Competition

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

Giving, Balance, Wealthy

"Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. March, 2014.

I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.

Believe, Responsibility, Giving

"Bill Gates: A New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft". news.microsoft.com. June 15, 2006.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

Business, Believe, Giving

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

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

Government, People, Giving

People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'

Thinking, People, Giving

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confused, Mean, Giving

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Ideas, People, Giving

Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Giving, Facts, Computer

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Past, Giving, Empowering

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Responsibility, Giving, Way

Interview with Dana Goldstein, www.thedailybeast.com. January 24, 2010.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Government, Zimbabwe, Giving

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

Team, People, Giving

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

Giving, Empowering, Vision

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

Leadership, Giving, Decision

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.

Unique, Government, Giving

Source: thesource.com

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

Giving, Aids, Greenhouses

"THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

Stupid, People, Giving

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

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Dream, Giving, Disease

Interview with Kristi Heim, www.seattletimes.com. September 25, 2007.

Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.

Taken, Vaccines, Giving

Source: www.geekwire.com

It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died.

Running, Giving, Wife

Source: www.geekwire.com

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