“Why is there so much more research done on baldness than on malaria? Because rich people go bald, and they don’t die of malaria.”
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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“Does the e-mail say it’s about ‘enlargement’? That might be spam.”
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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“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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.”
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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“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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“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
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“Often you have to rely on intuition.”
Bill Gates
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“This new group brings extensive business and philanthropic experience that will enrich the conversation about how to make philanthropy as impactful as possible. Their thoughtfulness and deep commitment to philanthropy are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others as well.”
Bill Gates
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“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
Bill Gates
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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 miracles.”
Bill Gates
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
Bill Gates
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“This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.”
Bill Gates
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
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“It’s possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.”
Bill Gates
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