American - Businessman | October 28, 1955 -
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates
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AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
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Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
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The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
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It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
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The Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.
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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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