Billionaire Li Ka Shing Quotes

The following is a few quotes from probably East Asia's richest man and generous philanthropist, Billionaire Li Ka Shing

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill.. it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.


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Sam Zell Quotes

The following are some quotes from Billionaire Sam Zell

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us.

In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.


The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.






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Jerry Yang Quotes

Here are some famous quotations from another Billionaire Jerry Yang ..Jerry Yang is the CEO/Director/Founder of Yahoo!, Incorporated (YHOO) www.yahoo.com

The internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to "my media", in which consumers will be their own programmers.

First and foremost, the internet is unique since it is THE only interactive medium -- and that's important because from a content, service, and communications perspective, we web folks try to take advantage of that interactivity.

It is a pretty recognizable brand name. Originally it was "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but we settled on "Yahoo".

It helps a ton when you learn people's names and don't butcher them when trying to pronounce them.

In June 1994, while it is still our hobby, we renamed it "yahoo" to stand for "yet another hierarchical officious oracle".

We are very much believers that the web is an open environment, and we need to make sure that people can find all kinds of different stuff through Yahoo!, and not necessarily keeping people within Yahoo!

We're just going to concentrate on what we've always done, which is to create the best possible online directory, adding content and other features along the way when it makes sense.

On the outside, Yahoo is a fun and irreverent place, but on the inside we are extremely competitive.

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.

We are driving innovation to be leaders in areas such as advertising, music, broadband, and search. Consumers vote with their mouse every day and we never take their choices for granted.

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Larry Page Quotes

The following are some quotes from Larry Page! Larry page is an American billionaire and co-founder of Google company. More Larry Page info!

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Don’t be evil.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

I worry, but I’ve worried all along. I worried as we got bigger and there were new pressures on the company.

The dot-com period was difficult for us. We were dismayed in that climate.

In general we’re trying to use the web’s self-organizing properties to decide which things to present. We don’t want to be in the position of having to decide these things. We take the responsibility seriously. People depend on us.

People do it (searching on web, spamming) because it’s like discovering fire: “We can affect the web!” Well, you are the web, so of course you can affect it.

Advertising is more predictable and probably more effective.

We try to use elements from different companies, but a lot is seat-of-your-pants stuff.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.


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There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.

News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services.. to all contribute.

Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense. And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
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Today quotes are from Rupert Murdoch

I'm a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.

Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says: "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it’s worthwhile.

Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.



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Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

People settle for mediocrity for one reason—they're lazy.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.



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Unless you have been isolated in a cave for the last 20 years or so, you have heard/read/seen something about "Donald Trump"! In my opinion Donald Trump is probably one of the world's best people for self promoting, gaining notability for his celebrity lifestyle and his real estate successes!

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Now, if your boss is a sadist, then you have a big problem. In that case, fire your boss and get a new job.

Think big, or go home.

Think Big and Live Large!

Never, Never Quit!"

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

Everything in life is luck.

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?


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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

History is more or less bunk.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.


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Henry Ford Quotes

Another great name who is quoted often is Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the American founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
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More Quotes from Bill Gates, probably the richest person in the world and just as quoted as Warren Buffet (another great man!)

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly - they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure, Firefox has come along, and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser - best in security, best in features.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said or quotations, there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.

There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you, Find yourself.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spa-m every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

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.

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.


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Here is more quotes from Bill Gates (who is a famous American business leader and the founder of Microsoft Corporation).

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs and to study great programs that other people have written.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spa-m every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you, Find yourself.

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.

Capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, yes my country is doing well, but you think about the world at large.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

It's been shown that most people download viruses unwittingly - they don't know they're doing it until it's too late. That's what I mean here. We're talking about protecting the consumer.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure, Firefox has come along, and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser - best in security, best in features.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said or quotations, there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

There are some things that we are always thinking about. For example, when will speech recognition be good enough for everybody to use that? And we have made a lot more progress this year on that. I think we will surprise people a bit on how well we will do on our speech recognition.

There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.

What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid for breakthroughs

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

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Who is Bill Gates.. Well William H. (Bill) Gates is currently the Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft.
Reported to be the richest private individual in the World with a net worth of over 50 billion dollars.
Here are some of his quotes!

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

Life is not fair, get used to it.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Patience is a key element of success.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

People everywhere love Windows.

Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.




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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Value is what you get.

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

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"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians."

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.



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If there is any investor who you could look up to and use as a “role model,” Warren Buffett takes a simplified and long-term approach to investing; and he puts all of the Wall St. day-traders to shame. He is without a doubt one of the greatest investors of all time, and has been in the top 5 richest people for decades.

Here is a list of quotes from Warren Buffett about life, money, investing, and anything else.
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"A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought".

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken".

"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."

"I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here."

"I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me".

"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over".

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
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GREAT BUSINESS QUOTES

It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy.  Steve Jobs

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire the man, not his history.  Henry Ford

The man who starts off simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambitition.  John D Rockefeller

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.  Steve Jobs

Any Customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants as long as it's black.  Henry Ford

The Web will be one more area of significant change and those who don't pay attention will get hurt, while those who see it early enough will get rewarded.  Steve Jobs

One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over....your problem won't improve with age.  Warren Buffett

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is that polite all the time.  Edgar Watson Howe

If you would know the value of money, go and borrow some.  Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money.  W C Fields

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.  W C Fields

Let a man start out in life to build something better and sell it cheaper than it has been built or sold before, let him have the determination and the money will roll in.  Henry Ford

One of the lessons from the Darwinian world is that the excellence of an organism's nervous system helpd determines its ability to sense change and quickly respond, thereby surviving or even thriving.  Bill Gates

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.  George Eastman

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.  Lee Iacocca

You just have to be the kind of guy to get people to do things.  Donald Trump

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.  Lee Iacocca

It is not the employer whopays the wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.  Henry Ford

Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle.  Elmer Wheeler

A company needs smart young men with the imagination and the guts to turn everything upside down if they can. It also needs old figures to keep them from turning upside down those things that ought to be rightside up.  Henry Ford

Microsoft is always just two years away from failure.  Bill Gates

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.  J M Barrie

Always be smart enough to hire people brighter than yourself.  Caroline Marland

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on business.  John D Rockefeller


The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.  Rupert Murdoch

In many of our huge corporations we treat people like commodities. And people cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.  H Ross Perot

Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.  J Paul Getty

My father said:'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money...you won't make many deals.   J Paul Getty

I don't invest in anything I don't understand - it makes more sense to buy TV stations than oil wells.  Oprah Winfrey

To me, it's very simple; if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.  Donald Trump

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did in the Middle Ages.  Bill Gates

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Ray Kroc

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.  Sam Walton

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.  Richard Branson

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.  Donald Trump

A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored   Henry Ford


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