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Giving Quotes by Bill Gates

37 Giving quotes by Bill Gates

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A flat organization where everyone gets the same message reflects Gates’s view on empowering workers with information. He talks about the responsibility to give back and the difficulty of giving money effectively. He also mentions that knowledge from information gives a competitive edge.

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The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the

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Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!

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It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

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Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.

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If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

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It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is…

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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of…

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Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the…

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The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have…

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You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that…

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Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around…

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Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a…

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Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over…

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Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule…

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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich…

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We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the…

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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting…

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I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the…

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I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're…

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The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that…

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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The…

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It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan…

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There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent…

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I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that…

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Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility…

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The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and…

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Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with…

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The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot…

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Bioterrorism is like earthquakes, you should think in order of magnitudes. If you can kill 10 people that's a one, 100 people…

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If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and…

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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will…

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Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades…

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You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly…

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Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways…

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We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per…

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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.