Bill Gates Quotes

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Bill Gates

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 28, 1955

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

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Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

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I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

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Eventually, all companies are replaced.

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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

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A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

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The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

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Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

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The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

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Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

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No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

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People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

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I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

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Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

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I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

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