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Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Born: October 28, 1955

Nationality: American

Profession: Entrepreneur

About Bill Gates

Bill Gates (born 1955) is an American entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, a company that revolutionized personal computing. In recent decades, he has shifted his focus to global philanthropy through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, dedicating vast resources to tackling critical issues in health, poverty, and education. His widely followed quotes often offer insights on technology, innovation, and finding solutions to global challenges.

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Notable Works & Achievements

Achievements: Co-founder of Microsoft
Founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Quotes by Bill Gates

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler.

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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

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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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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

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Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

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If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

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The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

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Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.

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This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great...

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Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy...

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The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the...

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To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

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I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

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Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted,...

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Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

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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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Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

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With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.

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The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist...

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Started from the chair hop now we here.

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We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

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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...

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Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

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When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was...

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Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in...

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Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.

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Our teachers deserve better feedback.

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These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the...

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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory.

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As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

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[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.

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If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

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When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

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China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

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Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

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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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You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

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Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy...

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Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

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Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider...

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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.

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WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

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When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel...

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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear...

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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

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I don't have any TVs with their over-the-air receivers connected in my house. But when I'm in a hotel room or other places that have a TV, then I turn it on and flip the channels just like everybody else....

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If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

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We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

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People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

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Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.

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The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what...

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