Bill Gates Quotes

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Knowing your numbers can help you transform all of your business relationships and give you a significant competitive advantage.
Bill Gates

The business side of any company starts and ends with hard-core analysis of its numbers.
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If you don’t understand what’s happening in your business factually and you’re making business decisions based on anecdotal data or gut instinct alone, you’ll eventually pay a big price.
Bill Gates

Numbers give you the factual basis for the directions in which you take your products. Numbers tell you in objective terms what customers like and don’t like. Numbers help you identify your highest priorities so that you can take fast tactical or strategic action.
Bill Gates

You have to think, act, evaluate, adapt.
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[In 1999] Just-in-time delivery can be a reality for any industry.
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Everyone who touches the product must add value…
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You need to step back and come up with a new approach.
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The inevitable consequence of better computer systems is a smarter use of people’s time.
Bill Gates

What digital tools do that paper reports cannot is give everyone the ability to ask the next question. Because you never know what that question is going to be, you need tools that help you explore the answers on your own.
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What distinguishes my satisfied customers from my unsatisfied customers?
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[In 1999] Targeted ads should make consumers happy. They’re more likely to see ads that are relevant to them.
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Soap operas – the staple of daytime TV in the United States – are so named because the advertisers were traditionally the big soap companies going after the audience of largely female viewers.
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The secret to success with information products is understanding the profile and buying habits of your most likely customer.
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You always have to ask what’s actionable.
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The better tools they have, the more creative they can be.
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As software extracts more and more ore from the mine of information, people will always have work turning it into gold.
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Knowledge management is nothing more than managing information flow, getting the right information to the people who need it so that they can act on it quickly.
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To recruit and retain smart people, you need to make it easy for them to collaborate with other smart people.
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Intellectual capital is the intrinsic value of the intellectual property of your company and the knowledge your people have.
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Knowledge management is a fancy term for a simple idea. You’re managing data, documents and people’s efforts.
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If you decline to take risks early, you’ll decline in the market later. If you bet big, though, only a few of these risks have to succeed to provide for your future.
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Risk taking is natural in an emerging industry.
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If you’re going to go digital, you have to go digital all the way.
Bill Gates

If the basic operational processes of your business fail, your company fails.
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If you don’t believe that all workers have the potential to contribute to your company’s success, all the technology in the world won’t empower them. Once you assume that every employee should be a knowledge worker, technology will help every employee put his or her full abilities to work on the company’s behalf.
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Computers will eliminate some jobs, but they will take the drudgery out of many other jobs.
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If you cut a job into too many pieces and involve too many people, nobody can see the whole process and the work will bog down.
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Every project has trade-offs.
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You need to be flexible in the face of evolving requirements, without invalidating your original design goals with creeping change.
Bill Gates



If you find more than three or four decision makers in the room, you can be sure that the sheer number of people involved is a major part of the problem.
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Shipping is a feature.
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Nobody can predict every possible wrinkle or problem with a new process or application.
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Projects of only three to four months’ duration are going to have much lower failure rates. With short projects you’re forced to make important trade-offs that will drive you to simplicity and focus. You’ll end up with goals that can be executed.
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It’s far easier psychologically to pull out and redirect your development team when people haven’t spent a year of their lives working on a project that’s now going down the tubes.
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Every successful application of technology involves generous and ongoing doses of training.
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There’s a lot of quackery out on the Internet too, so don’t believe everything you find.
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No health care system is an island.
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Businesses going digital are stuck with many paper forms because governments are not yet online.
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[In 1999] Electronic data is as safe as data in other forms.
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