Bill Gates Wise Quote
If you born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake. – Bill Gates
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Ideas Quotes
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one. – Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. – Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. – Albert Einstein
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. – Mark Twain
You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing. – Warren Buffett
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. – John F. Kennedy
“I don’t know exactly where ideas come from. It’s just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.” – Jim Henson
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. – Coco Chanel
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. – Aristotle
College isn’t the place to go for ideas. – Helen Keller
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. – Walt Disney
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right. – Bill Gates
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford
Great ideas originate in the muscles. – Thomas A. Edison
God screens us evermore from premature ideas. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas. – Bob Dylan
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use? – Dale Carnegie
Life Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. – Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. – Dale Carnegie
Life is not fair; get used to it. – Bill Gates
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping. – Dale Carnegie
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. – Dale Carnegie
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. – Andrew Carnegie
Internet Quotes
– “Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.” – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
– “If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.” – Anil Ambani
– “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.” – Sergey Brin
– “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.” – George Bushism
– “The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.” – Vinton Cerf
– “They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. In other words, it’s evolving fast and faster.” – Vinton Cerf
– “Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.” – Vinton Cerf
– “The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.” – Vinton Cerf
– “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” – Stephen Colbert
– “I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.” – Anderson Cooper
– “There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the nondigital world.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
– “The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” – Peter Drucker
– “Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.” – David Filo
– “We’re not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.” – David Filo
– “We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.” – David Filo
– “First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.” – David Filo
– “The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don’t cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.” – David Filo
– “The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” – Milton Friedman
– “Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – Bill Gates
– “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” – Bill Gates
– “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates
– “The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.” – Bill Gates
– “Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.” – Bill Gates
– “We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.” – Bill Gates
Business & Money Quotes
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. – Donald Trump
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. – Donald Trump
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. – Charles Schwab
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake. – John D. Rockfeller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts. – John D. Rockfeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. – John D. Rockfeller
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it? – John D. Rockfeller
Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. – Guy Kawasaki
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. – Bill Gates
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. – Bill Gates
If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good. – Bill Gates
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates
Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. – Bill Gates
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. – Henry Ford
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. – Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. – Warren Buffet
It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction. – Warren Buffet
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. – Warren Buffet
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. – Warren Buffet
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. – Andrew Carnegie
Success Quotes
In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. – Donald Trump
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive. – Donald Trump
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. – Charles Schwab
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockfeller
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockfeller
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. – John D. Rockfeller
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. – John D. Rockfeller
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. – Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. – Henry Ford
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. – Henry Ford
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasso
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. – David Frost
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. – Dale Carnegie
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – W. C. Fields
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vince Lombardi
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. – Ross Perot
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. – Dale Carnegie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. – Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. – Dale Carnegie
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Ewing
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching. – Tennessee Williams
Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get. – Kevin Spacey
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. – Arnold H. Glasow
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. – Henry Ford
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is. – Donald Trump
Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing. – Donald Trump
If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed. – Juliana Hatfield
Leadership Quotes
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership. – Dwight Eisenhower
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. – Robert E. Lee
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off. – LtG. Hal Moore
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. – Colin Powell
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn’t dance. – Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have. – Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George S. Patton
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? – Benjamin Disraeli
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. – Thomas Paine
The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. – Adolf Hitler
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. – John Wooden
Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. – Anonymous
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. – Theodore Hesburgh
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. – Unknown
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
How to Motivate Yourself
The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. –John Burroughs
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. –Harold B. Melchart
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. –Dale Carnegie
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. –John Henry Newman
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. –Albert Einstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. –Lao-Tzu
Things do not change; we change. –Henry David Thoreau
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. –G.K. Chesterton
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. –Elbert Hubbard
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. –James Gordon
You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing. –Arthur Ashe
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. –Louis Pasteur
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. –Ambrose Redmoon
Often you just have to rely on your intuition. –Bill Gates
It’s easier to live with disappointment than regret. –Andre Agassi
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. –J. Pierpont Morgan
Famous Education & Wisdom Quotes
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” – Pete Seeger
“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates
“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.” – Marry Pettibone Poole
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne
“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” – Bill Gates
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.” – Wu Ting-Fang
“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” - Plato
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes
Computers Quotes
– “A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.” – Emo Philips
– “Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.” – Larry Ellison
– “Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” – Edsger Dijkstra
– “Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” – Louis Gerstner
– “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” – Pablo Picasso
– “Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.” – Andy Rooney
– “Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.” – Nicholas Negroponte
– “Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” – Clifford Stoll
– “Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.” – Doug Larson
– “I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.” –
Dave Barry
– “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” – Isaac Asimov
– “I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” – Stephen Hawking
– “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates
– “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” – Steve Wozniak
– “Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.” – Isaac Asimov
– “People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.” – Adam Osborne
– “Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.” – Ray Kurzweil
– “The computer is a moron.” – Peter Drucker
– “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.” – Douglas Engelbart
– “The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.” – Ted Nelson