Bill Gates: 95 citations0 J'aime
Bill Gates citations célèbres
The three magic elements - the opportunity for breakthroughs, to play a unique role, and to work with smart people on interesting problems (the things I loved about my job at Microsoft ) - are all present in the foundation work that I do.
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Bill Gates: Citations en anglais
“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
“If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.”
Quoted in various publications, without any further sourcing. The quote is dubious in view of the Gates Foundation's public mission, "to lift people out of hunger and extreme poverty." Gates was born to an affluent family.
Misattributed
“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.”
At Live8 (2 July 2005) as reported in BBC News (4 July 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/4648003.stm <br class="br">2000s
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speedofthought/default.asp <br class="br">1990s
“We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed”
http://www.investing.com/news/financial-news/gates,-others-pledge-$630-million-to-beat-polio-22402 "Gates, others pledge $630 million to beat polio" Investing.com (21 January 2009)
Regarding Bill And Melinda Gates' Polio Efforts (2009)
TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619135050/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates7.html <br class="br">1990s
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
Bill Gates livre The Road Ahead
Source: The Road Ahead
“Life's not fair, get over it!”
Variante: Life is not fair get used to used to it
“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”
Bill Gates livre The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead (1995)
Variante: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch (1981), interpreted as a jab at Gary Kildall
1980s
Interview with Steven Levy in Newsweek (31 January 2007) "Finally, Vista Makes Its Debut. Now What?" http://archive.is/20130105003445/www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/01/31/finally-vista-makes-its-debut-now-what.html <br class="br">2000s
Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)
Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in "Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) http://archive.is/20130102062335/http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html <br class="br">1990s
Bill Gates Charlie Rose Interview http://youtube.com/watch?v=M1EsIusQJQM on Charlie Rose (25 November 1996) <br class="br">1990s
