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Bill Gates Quotes


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Bill Gates is one of the richest men on the planet and the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. He has an estimated worth of 112.8 billion USD (2020).  This legendary businessman has kept himself at the top of the richest person for so many years and what made him this rich? Before Jeff Bezos overtook him in the richest man list, Bill Gates was on the top from 1995. So, what made him learn these skills to be one of the smartest entrepreneurs of this era.

Except for the billionaire, Bill Gates is also a business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. So, many entrepreneurs who are willing to do a startup can learn many things from him.
So, here are some inspiring quotes from Bill Gates:
1. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

2. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

3. Life is not fair; get used to it.

4. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

5. Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

6. I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

7. If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.

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8. We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

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

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

11. Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

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

13. We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

14. The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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15. The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

16. I believe that if you show people the problem and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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

17. Lectures should go from being like family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

18. Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solve our biggest problems.

19. Like my friend Warren Buffet, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap-dancing to work."

20. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

21. Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

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22. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

23. When a country has the skill and self- confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

24. Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

25. 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.

26. If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

27. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

28. 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 action.

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

30. To win big, you sometimes need to take big risks.

31. If you can't make a good, at least make it look good.

32. Patience is a key element to success.

32. Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

33. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

34. Power comes not from knowledge kept, but from the knowledge shared.

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

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