Bill Gates

Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Philanthropist

Bill Gates is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist known for co-founding Microsoft and his significant contributions to global health and education.

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"I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else."

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"Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community."

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"Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them."

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"Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore."

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"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."

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"Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care."

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"It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting."

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"You can be a business thinker."

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

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"Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions."

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"I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it."

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"I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can."

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"As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons."

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"One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly."

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"I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs."

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"I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things."

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"The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny."

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"Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil."

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"The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning"

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"The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years."

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