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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
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If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down.
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The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority.
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I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
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I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it
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I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
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In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
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I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.
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It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.
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Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
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There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.
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Change the boundaries of business.
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I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees
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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
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Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
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We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.
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The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
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