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

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American - Businessman Born: October 28, 1955

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

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

Success, Smart People

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. Bill Gates

Technology, Efficiency

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. - Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. Bill Gates

Town, Square, Becoming

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

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

Failure, Important, Fine

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. - Bill Gates

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. Bill Gates

Feedback, How, Give

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates

Technology, Motivating, Them

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

Think, Other, Becoming

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates

Learning, Unhappy, Most

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. Bill Gates

Part, Making, Based

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. Bill Gates

Almost, Implicit, Private

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

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

Next, Will, Century

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. - Bill Gates

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

Good, Make, Least

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. Bill Gates

Education, Your Child, Half

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs. Bill Gates

Innovation, Other, Needs

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. Bill Gates

Everyone, Everybody, Means

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. Bill Gates

Voice, Been, Developments

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. Bill Gates

Think, Computers, I Think

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. - Bill Gates

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up. Bill Gates

Minorities, Get, Lot

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. Bill Gates

Innovation, Learn, Believe

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. - Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable. Bill Gates

Treatment, Unsustainable

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. Bill Gates

Think, I Think, Drones

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. Bill Gates

Move, Very, Worked

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. - Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates

Business, Banana, Property

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. - Bill Gates

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. Bill Gates

Great, Software, Artistry

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. - Bill Gates

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. Bill Gates

Innovation, Fast, Pace

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. Bill Gates

Thanksgiving, Idea, Another

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