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World Quotes by Bill Gates

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The world needs banking, but it doesn’t need banks, and investing in the poorest people can be the smartest way to spend money. Bill Gates says industry and government should protect privacy, that protests are powerful tools of democracy, and that picking a specific challenge to learn about can help make the world a better place.

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The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.

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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

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By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

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The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

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Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

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I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

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We're changing the world with technology.

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The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

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Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will…

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When you have money in hand,only you forget who are you .But when you do not have any money in your hand,the…

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I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

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(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility…

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I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

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The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a…

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The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair…

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I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain…

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The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very…

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During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If…

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I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's…

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The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how…

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I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of…

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[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy,…

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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and…

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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that…

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I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's…

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What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet…

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...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was…

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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail…

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I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be…

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The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for…

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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

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By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call…

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In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world…

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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

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I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

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When you have in money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in…

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We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

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The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

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Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great.

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

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Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

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…

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Software is more important than hardware.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.