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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

Jobs

"Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment."

Jobs Government Technology

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

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"Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."

People Jobs Focus

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

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"There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away."

Jobs Philosophy Interesting

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

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"I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world."

People Jobs Encouragement

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist

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"Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to."

People Years Jobs

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian

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"It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is."

Jobs Fun Being Yourself

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian

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"Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is."

Jobs Being Yourself Hardest Job

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Bill Smith Artist

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"As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us."

Needs Jobs Excellence

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Blake Mycoskie Entrepreneur

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"Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good."

Giving Jobs Team

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Blanche Lincoln Politician

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"At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully."

Country Jobs Climate

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

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"The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs."

People Jobs Government

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

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"I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to."

Trying Jobs Realizing

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker

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"The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent."

Jobs Opportunity Average

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker

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"Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform."

People Jobs Leader

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter

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"Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions."

Jobs Care Obsession

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Bob Wright Television Personality

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"NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics."

Jobs Males Nbc

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Alastair Campbell Political Consultant, Author

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"What concerns me is that the Independent is going, and there are job cuts at the Guardian, but the wretched Daily Mail is still rampant, making lots of money by millions of people clicking on pictures of cellulited women. I think that's sad."

Jobs Cutting Independent

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright

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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."

Jobs Motivational Class

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Ali Smith Author

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"I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end."

Jobs Stories Get Better

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Alice S Rossi Psychologist

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"Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it."

People Men Jobs

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