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I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you.
Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.
Love the people that wanna see you be successful and help you expecting nothing in return. That’s priceless. Those are real friends.
The price for sitting and watching game shows and betting on lottery is that the vast majority of the viewers will never become rich
By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth.
If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.
Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.
When I was young, people lived paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; “I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments.
The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you.
From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.
If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.
The way we'll get more jobs is by creating new industries, new companies, businesses that are higher tech and therefore can compete.
Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
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".
Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.
Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong
You get rich because you do things most people will not do. Success requires sacrifice. You must be willing to make those sacrifices.
Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.
As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.
Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
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.
We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.