October 28 Quotes

76 quotes in this collection

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Such is the perspective of a true industry pioneer."

-- Bill Gates

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. A practical insight into maintaining momentum under extreme pressure."

-- Bill Gates

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. A practical insight into maintaining momentum under extreme pressure."

-- Bill Gates

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue—to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

-- Socrates

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue—to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

-- Socrates

"If you want to be happy, be."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"If you want to be happy, be."

-- Leo Tolstoy

"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated."

-- Bill Gates

"Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated."

-- Bill Gates

"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."

-- Bill Gates

"I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."

-- Bill Gates

"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars... But once you get much beyond that, it's the same hamburger."

-- Bill Gates

"I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars... But once you get much beyond that, it's the same hamburger."

-- Bill Gates

"I wish I wasn't [the world's richest man]. There's nothing good that comes out of that."

-- Bill Gates

"I wish I wasn't [the world's richest man]. There's nothing good that comes out of that."

-- Bill Gates

"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."

-- Bill Gates

"Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."

-- Bill Gates

"I am results-oriented."

-- Bill Gates

"I am results-oriented."

-- Bill Gates

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."

-- Bill Gates

"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."

-- Bill Gates

"There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position."

-- Bill Gates

"There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position."

-- Bill Gates

"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."

-- Bill Gates

"A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."

-- Bill Gates

"I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view."

-- Bill Gates

"I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view."

-- Bill Gates

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"

-- Bill Gates

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"

-- Bill Gates

"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."

-- Bill Gates

"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."

-- Bill Gates

"I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do."

-- Bill Gates

"I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do."

-- Bill Gates

"When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it."

-- Bill Gates

"When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it."

-- Bill Gates

"Don't make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time."

-- Bill Gates

"Don't make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time."

-- Bill Gates

"Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride."

-- Bill Gates

"Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride."

-- Bill Gates

"Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

-- Bill Gates

"Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

-- Bill Gates

"We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering."

-- Bill Gates

"We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering."

-- Bill Gates