Quotes 21 till 40 of 105.
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I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
On being the worlds richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006) -
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip Reuters (21 March 2007) -
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
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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.
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If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the Worlds Greatest Entrepreneur -
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
At Live8 (2 July 2005) as reported in BBC News (4 July 2005) -
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
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In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!
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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995) -
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.
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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch -
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
The Wall Street Journal (29-12-2011) -
It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995 -
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
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It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. -Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, July 17 2007
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