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About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. ― Bill Gates
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ― Bill Gates
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You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. ― Bill Gates
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You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way. – Bill Gates
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Who decides what’s in Windows? The customers who buy it. – Bill Gates
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Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. ― Bill Gates
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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. – Bill Gates
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When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. ― Bill Gates
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When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the whole world forget who you are.It's life. ― Bill Gates
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When the PC was launched, people knew it was important. ― Bill Gates
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Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it. ― Bill Gates
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We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. – Bill Gates
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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. ― Bill Gates
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We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering. – Bill Gates
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We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be. ― Bill Gates
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction. – Bill Gates
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We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. – Bill Gates
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Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until ever inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. – Bill Gates
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To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. – Bill Gates
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To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. ― Bill Gates
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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. ― Bill Gates
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There’s only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that’s already been written. ― Bill Gates
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There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It’s like saying that as of 1932, cars didn’t have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them. ― Bill Gates
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There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. – Bill Gates
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The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. ― Bill Gates
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The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. ― Bill Gates
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. – Bill Gates
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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. ― Bill Gates
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The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice. – Bill Gates
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The Internet will help achieve friction free capitalism by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. ― Bill Gates
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The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ― Bill Gates
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier. ― Bill Gates
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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. – Bill Gates
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ― Bill Gates
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The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. ― Bill Gates
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The best teacher is very interactive. – Bill Gates
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The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. ― Bill Gates
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Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. – Bill Gates
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ― Bill Gates
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Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose. ― Bill Gates
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So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts — you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important. ― Bill Gates
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Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy ― Bill Gates
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Philanthropy should be voluntary. – Bill Gates
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? ― Bill Gates
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Patience is a key element of success. ― Bill Gates
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Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. ― Bill Gates
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card. – Bill Gates
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. ― Bill Gates
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Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness. ― Bill Gates
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that. ― Bill Gates
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. ― Bill Gates
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Make it just like a Mac. ― Bill Gates
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so irritating. ― Bill Gates
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Life is not fair; get used to it. ― Bill Gates
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Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time. Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. ― Bill Gates
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ― Bill Gates
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It’s not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. ― Bill Gates
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It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates
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It’s easier for our software to compete with Linux when there’s piracy than when there’s not. ― Bill Gates
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ― Bill Gates
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In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will. ― Bill Gates
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In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not… ― Bill Gates
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in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you ― Bill Gates
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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. – Bill Gates
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If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. ― Bill Gates
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act. ― Bill Gates
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If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them. ― Bill Gates
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If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. ― Bill Gates
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If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates
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If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake. ― Bill Gates
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if u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake ― Bill Gates
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If something is expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? ― Bill Gates
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If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago? – Bill Gates
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. – Bill Gates
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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. ― Bill Gates
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I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in. – Bill Gates
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I’m a big believer that as much as possible, and there’s obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing. – Bill Gates
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I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it ― Bill Gates
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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software. – Bill Gates
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I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. ― Bill Gates
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I studied every thing but never topped…. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees ― Bill Gates
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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. ― Bill Gates
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I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them. ― Bill Gates
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. – Bill Gates
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. ― Bill Gates
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I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’. ― Bill Gates
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I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don’t just think, ‘Yes, my country is doing well,’ but you think about the world at large. – Bill Gates
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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. ― Bill Gates
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I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! – Bill Gates
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I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act ― Bill Gates
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. – Bill Gates
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I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company. ― Bill Gates
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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. ― Bill Gates
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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. ― Bill Gates
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Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity. ― Bill Gates
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Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true. – Bill Gates
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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. – Bill Gates
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Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. – Bill Gates
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Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. – Bill Gates
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. ― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
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Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things. ― Bill Gates
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Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down. ― Bill Gates
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Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. ― Bill Gates
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. – Bill Gates
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top — I’m afraid that’s not quite right. ― Bill Gates
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. ― Bill Gates
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Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. – Bill Gates
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ― Bill Gates