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"Master of Business"
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Bill Gates
Quotes:
If
you
can't
make it good, at least make it look good.”
Famous saying
Life
is not fair, get used to it.
Life saying
Your
most
unhappy
customers are your greatest source of learning.
Business saying
Patience
is a
key element of success.
Wealth
saying
DOS
is ugly
and interferes with users' experience.
Technology saying
Microsoft
is
not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Microsoft saying
People
everywhere love Windows.
Famous saying
Let's
face
it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider
Monkey.
Computer saying
Success
is a
lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they
can't lose.
Inspirational saying
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Wealth saying
It's fine to celebrate
success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Inspirational saying
As we look ahead into the next century,
leaders will be those who empower others.
Inspirational saying
If you think your teacher
is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Experience saying
Microsoft has
had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have
museums to document that.
Microsoft saying
Television is not real
life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go
to jobs.
Life saying
I believe
that if you show people the problems and you show them the
solutions they will be moved to act.
Experience saying
The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to
study great programs that other people have written.
Technology saying
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.
Business saying
Whether
it's
Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic
competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Business saying
Life is not divided into
semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you, Find yourself.
Life saying
Like
almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spa-m every
day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It
would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
Famous saying
Hey,
I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy
than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of
billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more
than most people make in a lifetime!
Stock saying
I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million
dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't
make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million
dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right
here.
Wealth saying
As
you
improve health in a society, population growth
goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I
thought it was paradoxical.
Intelligent saying
At Microsoft
there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that
they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Famous saying
Capitalism
is
this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes
wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the
world at large, it's really let us down.
Intelligent saying
I actually
thought that it would be a little confusing during the same
period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make
money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Life saying
I do think
this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global
view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you
think about the world at large.
Life saying
I don't think
there's anything unique about human intellience. All the
nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a
binary fashion.
Intelligent saying
I have
drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And
it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked
about the view that that wealth wasn't something that would be good to
just pass to the children.
Wealth saying
I mean, if we
said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's
dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get
up immediately and go get involved in that.
Famous saying
I think it's
fair to say that personal computers have become the most
empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication,
they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Computer saying
I'm sorry
that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during
our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit
to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen.
We were just making great software.
Famous saying
In the decade
ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the
productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
Famous saying
Information
technology and business are becoming inextricably
interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one
without the talking about the other.
Communication saying
Is the rich
world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If
we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
Life saying
It's been
shown that most people download viruses unwittingly - they
don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean
here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.
Computer saying
Just in terms
of allocation of time resources, religion is not very
efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Funny saying
Oh, I think
there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling
online today that go up there and they get the information, but then
when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice
because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that
might mean for them.
Famous saying
People always
fear change. People feared electricity when it was
invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered
engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear.
But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Intelligent saying
Security is,
I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting
things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives,
staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these
security problems, then people will hold back.
Computer saying
Since when
has the world of computer software design been about what
people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly
coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will
all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Funny saying
So we do
software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And
some of these take a long time to catch on.
Business saying
Some people
read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real
immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
Computer saying
The browser
space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure,
Firefox has come along, and the press love the idea of that. Our
commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the
best browser - best in security, best in features.
Computer saying
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.
Technology saying
The huge
turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that
thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and
poverty.
Life saying
The Internet
will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting
buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to
both about each other.
Famous saying
The reason
you see open source there at all is because we came in and
said or quotations, there should be a platform that's identical with
millions and
millions of machines.
Famous saying
The two areas
that are changing... are information technology and
medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very
different 20 years from now than it is today.
Technology saying
There are
people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like
PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Famous saying
There are
some things that we are always thinking about. For example,
when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that?
And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will
surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.
Famous saying
There's
always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or
pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based
publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and
somebody notifies you about that.
Computer saying
What we're
really after is simply that people acquire a legal license
for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or
Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
Microsoft saying
When the PC
was launched, people knew it was important.
Famous saying
When you want
to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all
the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Funny saying
Windows 2000
already contains features such as the human discipline
component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard
if the human does something that does not please Windows.
Funny saying
The Internet
will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and
seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about
each other.
Famous saying
Paper is no
longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go
to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's
fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I
need.
Computer saying
Microsoft has
had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving
those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be
something that's about a tool for individuals.
Microsoft saying
We are always
saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that
breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are
using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So
we're only paid for breakthroughs
Famous saying
The U.S.
couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that
the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in
less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Famous saying
It's
pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting
and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close
to what I call the digital workstyle.
Microsoft saying
There
is a
certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this
unexpected position.
Famous saying
We
are not
even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can
be.
Computer saying
We've got to
put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Famous saying
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