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Bill Gates Quotes about Inspirational - Page 2

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I spend a lot of time reading.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Inspirational, Funny, Reading

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

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.107, Hachette UK

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

Inspirational, Reading, Night

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Inspirational, Funny, People

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

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

Inspirational, Life, Education

We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.

Inspirational, Business, Communication

We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other.

Inspirational, Feet, Trying

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Important

"Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Annual progress report 2013, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

Inspirational, Motivational, Writing

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

Inspirational, Leadership, Real

"A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.

Inspirational, Business, Mean

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

Inspirational, Way, Certain

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Inspirational, Dream, Money

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

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

Inspirational, Differences, People

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