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Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.
When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.
You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.
To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!
It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.
Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.
The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.
Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.
If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.
We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally.
I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.
It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.
If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.
If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.
I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.
You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
What's hot today isn't likely to be hot tomorrow. The stock market reverts to fundamental returns over the long run. Don't follow the herd.
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.