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Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. Bill Gates tags: activism, choices, life, society 254 people liked it like If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. Bill Gates 198 people liked it like Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself. Bill Gates tags: compare, insult, unique 153 people liked it like I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. Bill Gates 117 people liked it like I'm cooler than you. WAAAY cooler. Bill Gates 99 people liked it like I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees Bill Gates 93 people liked it like Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates tags: mistakes 88 people liked it like The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Bill Gates 83 people liked it like I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. Bill Gates tags: reading 67 people liked it like If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. Bill Gates tags: natural-abilities, people

66 people liked it like As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates 64 people liked it like Life is not fair get used to used to it Bill Gates tags: life 53 people liked it like Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Bill Gates tags: inspirational 49 people liked it like Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. Bill Gates tags: bill-gates, inspirational, life 47 people liked it like Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. Bill Gates 40 people liked it like I never topped in the university, but today toppers of best universities are my employees... Bill Gates 26 people liked it like Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things. Bill Gates 23 people liked it like Lakukan apa yang kamu suka dan jadikan itu bisnis Bill Gates tags: motivasi 20 people liked it like Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There`s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Bill Gates tags: agnosticism, atheism, efficiency, religion 19 people liked it like Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. Bill Gates tags: humor, nerds 17 people liked it like DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. Bill Gates, The Road Ahead tags: biology, dna, id, information, intelligent-design, science

17 people liked it like Life's not fair, get over it! Bill Gates tags: awesomesauce 16 people liked it like Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. Bill Gates 15 people liked it like I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Bill Gates 14 people liked it like in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you Bill Gates tags: global-awareness 11 people liked it like Success is a lousy teacher.It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose Bill Gates tags: inspirational 10 people liked it like The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about whats going on so they can do a lot more than theyve done in the past. Bill Gates 8 people liked it like So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important. Bill Gates tags: interview, vaccines 7 people liked it like Life is not fair; get used to it. Bill Gates tags: the-truth 7 people liked it like Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose. Bill Gates 4 people liked it like Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. Bill Gates tags: science 3 people liked it like

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Business @ the Speed of Thought 585 ratings buy a copy

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