Bill Gates Quotes About Focus

Quotes about: Focus

• Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

  Bill Gates

  Class, Focus, World

• My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Focus, Focus In Business

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

• Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

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  Success, Creativity, Skills

• Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Q&A: Gates talks about letting go, the future and the foundation". Interview with Todd Bishop and Tom Paulson, www.seattlepi.com. June 23, 2008.

• I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Scott Bevan, www.radioaustralia.net.au. February 28, 2012.

• It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

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  Educational, People, Focus

  "Keynote Address to the Creating Digital Dividends Conference". voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu. October 18, 2000.

• If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

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  Country, Zero, Years

  "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

• My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

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  Dark, Focus, Secret

• Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

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  Jobs, People, Focus

  "The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" by Matt Weinberger, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2017,.

• You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

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  Stupid, People, Giving

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

• I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

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  Focus, Use, Calendars

• An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

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  Engineering, Focus, Important

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.61, Hachette UK

• It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

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  Growing Up, Focus, Ems

• Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Focus, Unity

• Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Heart, Past

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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