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Bill Gates Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 28, 1955

Topics

Business Performance Doing Thrive

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Jim Lovell

Success People You Wonder Person

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

Joan Severance

You Acting Selling Kind Commercials

The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.

Jenna Wortham

Age Childhood Moving Writing Black

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

Jennie Finch

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

With supporting roles, you just want really good actors that can make it bigger than what's there.

Andrew Haigh

Good You Want Bigger Just Than

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

Matt Mullenweg

Live Alone World Cannot Characters

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

Jeff Goodell

Fight Long Fall Fast Will Hard

Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.

John Sayles

Fun You Know Mess Anything Going

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

Amy Adams

Sad Acting Never Out Film Been

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Robert Wyatt

Listen Peers Whole Tend

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Michel Hazanavicius

Me Process Recognition You Audience

Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.

Michael Leunig

Children Imagination Value Space