"Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded."
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"Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet."
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"Life is not fair get used to used to it"
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"The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago."
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"In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will."
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"Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end."
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"If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now."
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"And knowledge management is a means, not an end."
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"An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else."
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"The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills."
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"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."
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"When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking."
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"In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil."
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"In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now."
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"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?"
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"There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people."
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"The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less."
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"Banking is necessary - banks are not."
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"If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing."
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"The best teacher is very interactive."
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