Bill Gates Quotes

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Bill Gates

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 28, 1955

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

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

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

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

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If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

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Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

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Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

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Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

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Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

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I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

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In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

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