"If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is."
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"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."
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"This antitrust thing will blow over."
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"We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics."
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"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school."
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"Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are."
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"Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading."
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"The greatest thing you can do for your competition - hire poorly."
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"WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time."
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"Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie."
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"I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in."
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"Change the boundaries of business."
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"Your customers get better when you do."
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"When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so."
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"Microsoft is always two years away from failure."
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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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"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
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"I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them."
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"We weren't trying to just go public and get rich. There was no near-term thing. It always was this many-decades thing where there were no shortcuts and we'd sort of put one foot in front of the other."
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"The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs."
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