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31 Bill Gates Quotes About Success

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By Eldis Sula, Audacy

Bill Gates is a pioneer in tech, business and philanthropy.

The Microsoft founder grew the company into the giant it is today. Since leaving day-to-day operations in 2014, Gates has turned his full attention to solving global problems with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he oversees with his wife.

The recent Netflix documentary, “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates,” takes a fascinating look at the man behind the magnate. While the three-part series seems to take as its subject the Gates Foundation, it offers a rare glimpse into Bill’s habits, like his compulsive reading (“I’ve been with him on vacation and he’ll read 14 books,” a friend says), or his punctuality (“He is on time to the minute, every single meeting without fail,” says Lauren Jiloty of Gates Ventures).

Gates has a net worth of $105.7 billion. The amount was enough to surpass Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest man on Friday when the Amazon stock fell 7%. Bezos regained top spot by Friday afternoon, with his net worth bouncing back to $109.9 billion at the time markets closed.

Even allowing for market fluctuations, you don’t need to be a computer whiz to know that Gates is wildly successful. These are some of Gates’ best quotes on success and accomplishments.

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

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

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3 Patience is a key element of success.

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4 I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

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5 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

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6 Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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7 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

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8 We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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9 To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

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

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11 A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

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12 Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

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13 Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

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

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15 We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

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

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17 The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

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18 If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

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19 Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

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20 Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

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21 Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.’

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22 The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

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23 Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

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24 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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25 Life is not fair, get used to it.

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26 If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

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27 If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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

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29 The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

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

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31 I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one’s children. It’s not constructive for them.

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