Bill Gates Quotes About Meetings

Quotes about: Meetings

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

  Bill Gates

  Decision, Excellence, Meetings

• Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

• I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Encouragement, Jobs, People

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

• If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Mean, Giving

• Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Growing Up, Talking

• Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Smart, Phones

  "The PC Era Is Just Beginning". "Business Week" Magazine, www.businessweek.com. March 22, 2005.

• My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

  Bill Gates

  Mom, Dad, People

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