Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Leadership
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
—Bill Gates
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
—Bill Gates
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries — but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
—Bill Gates
Life is not fair; get used to it.
—Bill Gates
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
—Bill Gates
If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Ability
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Jobs
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
—Bill Gates
We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, “surrounding” a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Learning
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
—Bill Gates
Topics: Entrepreneurs, Business, Unhappiness, Adversity
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
—Bill Gates
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