36 powerful inspirational quotes is credited to Bill Henry Gates, remarkably the richest individual in the world. He is an Entrepreneurial figure with great enthusiasm for computers, software and programing. He co-founded the giant software company; MICROSOFT, along side with his child hood friend Paul Allen and ever since then, the company have grown into huge success. Without much ado, I will be sharing with you thirty six(36) inspirational quotes by Mr. Gates.
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others"
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning"
"The digital revolution affects the very mechanism of the market place"
"How buyers and sellers find each other, how we amass information, how we can create models to simulate things before building them, how scientists collaborate across continents, how we learn new things....all of this has changed dramatically, thanks to digital innovation"
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together, and motivating them, the teacher is the most important"
"If your culture does not like geeks, you are in real trouble"
"'I do not know' has become 'I do not know yet'"
"if geek means you are willing to study new things, and if you think science and engineering matters, I plead guilty"
"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business is not that complicated. I would not want that on my business card"
"Everybody is talking about re-maintaining infrastructure. You know, we are going to be able to build infrastructure that lasts ten times as long as the cement 'rebar' approach that we have today"
"We have got to put a lot of money into changing behaviour"
"Whether it is Google, or Apple or free software, we have got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes"
"Great organization demands a high level of commitment"
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana"
"At Microsoft, there are lots of brilliant ideas, but the image is that they all come from the top"
"There is only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that has already been written"
"Life is not fair, get used to it"
"Expectation are a form of first class truth; if people believe it, it is true"
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"
"Until we are educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do"
"if you think that your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He does not have tenure"
"In this business, by the time that you realize you are in trouble, it is too late to save yourself"
"Unless you are running scared all the time, you are gone"
"Microsoft is not about greed, it is about innovation and fairness"
"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good"
"If I did have a set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago"
"I do think in the next century, hopefully will be about a more global view, where you do not just think, 'yes my country is doing well', but you think about the world at large"
"We all need people who will give us feedback, that's how we improve"
"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty years"
"I studied everything but never topped, but today the toppers of the best universities are my employees"
"The world would not care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself"
"Computers are great because when you are 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"
"Most people over estimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years"
"DNA is like a computer program but far far more advanced than any software ever created"
"Do not compare yourself with anyone in this world, if you do so, you are insulting yourself"
"Success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking that they can't lose"
