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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".
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“If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.”

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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.
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“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”

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

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“I studied every thing but never topped…. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”

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“If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.”

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At Live8 (2 July 2005) as reported in BBC News (4 July 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/4648003.stm 2000s

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speedofthought/default.asp 1990s

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

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“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

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

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“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”

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“We are in the end game, I'm optimistic that we will be successful. I'm personally very committed”

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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)

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

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“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.”

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PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
1990s

“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.”

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TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619135050/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates7.html 1990s

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

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Bill Gates kniha The Road Ahead

Zdroj: The Road Ahead

“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

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“Life's not fair, get over it!”

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Varianta: Life is not fair get used to used to it

“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”

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“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”

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“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”

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“The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.”

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“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”

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Bill Gates kniha The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead (1995)
Varianta: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

“Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.”

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Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch (1981), interpreted as a jab at Gary Kildall
1980s

“If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. … Let’s be realistic, who came up with "File/Edit/View/Help"? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?”

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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 2000s

“Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.”

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Interview from Programmers at Work (1986)

“About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”

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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 1990s

“What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.”

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Bill Gates Charlie Rose Interview http://youtube.com/watch?v=M1EsIusQJQM on Charlie Rose (25 November 1996) 1990s