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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
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Often you have to rely on intuition.
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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.
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With world health, every life you save is a wonderful thing, so it's not this question of whether you solve it or you don't. The chance of completely solving the problems has long odds. But really, the thing is that you get to save the first child, the second child, the third child. You can just feel good about that.
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Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
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This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
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Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.
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Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
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To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
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Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
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