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Bill Gates

"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
Technology Business Will Automation
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
Bill Gates
Success Failure Celebrate Important
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
Bill Gates
Technology Teacher Together Getting
"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
Change Yourself Always Will
"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
Communication Great People Achieve
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
Bill Gates
Learning Unhappy Your Greatest Most
"We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve."
Bill Gates
People Will Who Us
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
Bill Gates
Good You Look Make
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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Tomorrow Village Internet Square
"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
Bill Gates
Technology Business Information Think
"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
Dreams Great Chance Think
"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
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Ahead Look Will Who Next
"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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You Revolution Industrial Revolution
"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."
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Communication Computers Creativity
"In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system."
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Education Long You Competition
"I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical."
Bill Gates
Day Never Little Now
"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
Life You Technology Everyday Life
"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
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You Improvement Way Bad
"Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority."
Bill Gates
Change Environmental Climate Problem
"Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin."
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Good Time Believe Bitcoin
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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Life Business Intellectual Banana
"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
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Positive People Society Will
"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."
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Change Time People Fear
"Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up."
Bill Gates
Discrimination Tough Up Make Layers
"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
You Matter Bridge Everyone
"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
Bill Gates
You People Computers Problems
"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school."
Bill Gates
Best Education You Achievement
"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
Bill Gates
You People Believe Problems
"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."
Bill Gates
People Capitalism Who Like
"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
Bill Gates
You Think Finish Finish Line
"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
Bill Gates
Great Engineering Software Between
"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
Morning Time Religion More
"Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources."
Bill Gates
Globalization More Minerals Mineral
"I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts."
Bill Gates
You Believe Research Way
"Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies."
Bill Gates
You World Information Privacy
"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."
Bill Gates
You Business Time Yourself
"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
Technology Car Like Driving
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
Bill Gates
Free Us Apple Google
"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
Bill Gates
Money Behavior Got Lot
"By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while."
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Change You Time Bad
"I am results-oriented."
Bill Gates
I Am Am
"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
Change Business Time World
"I spend a lot of time reading."
Bill Gates
Time Reading Spend Lot
"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
Bill Gates
Greed Innovation About Fairness
"Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable."
Bill Gates
Prevention Without Simply Treatment
"Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome."
Bill Gates
Capitalism Welcome Who Well
"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero."
Bill Gates
People Will Poor American
"Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form."
Bill Gates
Day News Big Want
"The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster."
Bill Gates
Today History World People

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