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Money Quotes by Bill Gates

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Bill Gates argues that the smartest way to spend government money is to invest in the world’s poorest people. He notes that every product he makes will become obsolete within three years, so the focus shifts to creating the next one. He also says that beyond a certain point, money stops adding real value.

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I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

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Make it just like a Mac.

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If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR

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Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

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Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

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It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

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Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

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If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

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If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

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There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

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Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of…

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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the…

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Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our…

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If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want…

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Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

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The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies…

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

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I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer…

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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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For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent…

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The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return…

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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'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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We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll…

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Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you…

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We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the…

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If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

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I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

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

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You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses

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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

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

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Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

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Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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

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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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People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first…

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

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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.