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“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

People Different Self Bigs Lying Interest Ability Business Return Genius Discovery Capitalism Innovation Responsible Incredibles Financial Driven Pursuit Broads Self Interest

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“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

“Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Care Causes Born Chance Business Taken Products Red Campaigns Buying Associates Davos

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“Computers and games don't waste time - people do.”

People Games Waste Computer Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

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“For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Stills Matter Perfect Plans One Thing Products Essentials Marketing Productions Factors Endeavor

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“I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.”

People Kind Facts Amount Equal News Losing Accounts Hearing Balanced Good News Bad News

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“Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.”

People Thinking Want Might Today Special Program Add Sticks Checks Fats Features Enhancement

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“I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.”

People Years Wells Real Enough Problem Lasts Moving Felt Decision Deals Providing Like Something Real Problems

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“We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you’ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing.”

People Knows Wells Heart Done Keys Program Code Internals

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“In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?”

People Way Needs Wells Stills Country Government Poor Tools Workers Links Crucial Providing Effectiveness Better Ways Vaccines Showing Up Poor Countries Health Services Government Workers

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“People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.”

People Want Purpose Video Devices

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“There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.”

People Way Trying Convince

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“Creativity allows people to be effective.”

People Creativity

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“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.”

People Jobs Ability Focus Revolutionary Users Amazing Things Interfaces User Interface

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“When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.”

People Incredibles Mechanism New Things Smarter Pumps

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“One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'”

People Needs Culture Term Walks Company One Thing Halls Frontiers Microsoft Usability

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“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.”

People Doe Sometimes Facts Able Imagination Industry Beats Software Competitors Microsoft Vigilant

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“Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.”

People Believe Loses Teacher Intelligent Guides Miserable Unreliable

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“People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.”

People Reader Excellent Knowledgeable

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“China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.”

People World Poor Successful Talent Solutions Entrepreneur China Insight Around The World Poor People Successful Entrepreneurs

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“The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.”

People Giving Government Company Capitalist Google Venture Microsoft Private Sector Venture Capitalists

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“Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.”

People World Matter Whole Kids Belief Talking Development Universal Following Contrary Around The World Soccer I've Learned Traveled Contrary To Popular Belief

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“We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.”

People Thinking World Years Winning Products Retreat Feedback Headings

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“The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.”

People Needs Situation Leader Environment Response

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

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“Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.”

People Ifs Writing Wells Ends Pay Skills Balls Luck Investing Assets Software Kicking Luck And Skill

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“The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.”

“The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.”

People World Today Millions Modern Worst Spread Faster Flu Interconnected Pandemics Modern History

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“The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.”

People Has Beens Millions Support Impressive Earthquakes Haiti Aftermath

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“Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.”

People Young Reading Given Good Things Screens Newspapers

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“By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.”

People Needs Firsts School Jobs Young Ready Percent High School Workers Graduates Graduating High School

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“I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.”

People Term College Skills Intellectual Broads Best Times

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“People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.”

People Ifs Want Can Do Watches Internet Video Infrastructure Provision

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“One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?”

People Wells Different Government Percent Supposed To Be Chinese Statistics Approval Chinese Government

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“It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.”

People Want Wells Climate Climate Change Disappear Zone Get Real Ecosystems Tropical

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“The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.”

People Next Asks Cutting Dying Cost Aids Budgets Next Time People Dying

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“Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.”

People Use Tough Window Versions New Things

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“If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.”

People Ifs Way Want Helping Highest Gains Rate Income Discussion Deficit Capital Gains

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“People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.”

People Enough Grows Difficult Climate Climate Change Crops Fertilizer

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“The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.”

People World Today Numbers Poverty Lows All Time Percentages All Time Low

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“Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.”

People Years Might Attention Week Tvs Impact Dedicated Dozen Fewer Considering Sharks Mosquitoes

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“A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.”

People Writing Doors Activity Office Creating Assuming Code Software Solitary

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“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.”

People Knows Heard Dad Speech My Dad Really Great Your Dad

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“We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.”

People Knows Want Stills Past Certain Stars Levels Creativity Creative Rocks Incentives Rock Star Creative People

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“With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.”

People Thinking Knows Ends Company Leader Cases More Time

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“Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society.”

People Thinking Way Helping Drones Positive Impact

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“I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.”

People Used Messages Phones Typing

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“I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.”

People Knows Language Five Comfortable

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“People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.”

People Watches Tvs Window

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“People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.”

People Should Rip Cds

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“Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.”

People Made Two Today Earth Five Higher Crops Output Fertilizer

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