Bill Gates Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Excellence, Meetings

• Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Giving, Decision

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Doctors, Safety

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• When you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Made, Tempting

• I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Moving, Years

  "Bill Gates speaks... in 1989 (and movie title mashups)" by Richi Jennings, www.computerworld.com. March 26, 2007.

• I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Thinking, Decision

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

• My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

  Bill Gates

  Mom, Decision, Groups

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