I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
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Other Bill Gates quotes:
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.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
Patience is a key element of success.
Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.
We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.
Business is a good game: Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
