"I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees"
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"If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing."
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"If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!"
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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."
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"Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."
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"So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side."
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"I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity."
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"I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world."
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"I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company."
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"My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things."
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"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
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"The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself."
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"To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly."
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"There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written."
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"It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge."
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"If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates."
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"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"Convert bad news to good news."
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