about Quotes “The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.” ― Bill Gates “There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere every year.” ― Bill Gates “Earlier, I mentioned a related technology called direct air capture. It involves exactly what the name implies: capturing carbon directly from the air. DAC is more flexible than point capture, because you can do it anywhere. And in all likelihood, it’ll be a crucial part of getting to zero; one study by the National Academy of Sciences found that we’ll need to be removing about 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year by mid-century and about 20 billion by the end of the century.” ― Bill Gates “I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of good friendships in my life. I’ve come to the same conclusion as [one] Harvard study on human life: good relationships make you happier and healthier.” ― Bill Gates “The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.” ― Jeff Bezos “In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.” ― Jeff Bezos “Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room.” ― Jeff Bezos “Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.” ― Jeff Bezos “AWS is customer obsessed, inventive and experimental, long-term oriented, and cares deeply about operational excellence.” ― Jeff Bezos “Most people,” he said, “think that if they work hard, they should be able to master a handstand in about two weeks. The reality is that it takes about six months of daily practice. If you think you should be able to do it in two weeks, you’re just going to end up quitting.” ― Jeff Bezos “I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.” ― Elon Musk “I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.” ― Elon Musk “Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.” ― Elon Musk “Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future.” ― Elon Musk “There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future?” ― Elon Musk “Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed” ― Elon Musk “I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” ― Elon Musk “If you're not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.” ― Elon Musk “I mean, I think that if people are concerned about volatility, they should definitely not buy our stock. I’m not here [on an earnings call] to convince you to buy [Tesla] stock. Do not buy it if volatility is scary. There you go.” ― Elon Musk “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.” ― Warren Buffett “If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” ― Warren Buffett “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.” ― Warren Buffett “When I was sixteen, I had just two things on my mind - girls and cars. I wasn't very good with girls. So I thought about cars. I thought about girls, too, but I had more luck with cars. Let's say that when I turned sixteen, a genie had appeared to me. And that genie said, 'Warren, I'm going to give you the car of your choice. It'll be here tomorrow morning with a big bow tied on it. Brand-new. And it's all yours.' Having heard all the genie stories, I would say, 'What's the catch?' And the genie would answer, 'There's only one catch. This is the last car you're ever going to ge tin your life. So it's got to last a lifetime.' If that had happened, I would have picked out that car. But, can you imagine, knowing it had to last a lifetime, what I would do with it? I would read the manual about five times. I would always keep it garaged. If there was the least little dent or scratch, I'd have it fixed right away because I wouldn't want it rusting. I would baby that car, because it would have to last a lifetime. That's exactly the position you are in concerning your mind and body. You only get one mind and one body. And it's got to last a lifetime. Now, it's very easy to let them ride for many years. But if you don't take care of that mind and that body, they'll be a wreck forty years later, just life the car would be. It's what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate ten, twenty, and thirty years from now.” ― Warren Buffett “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.” ― Warren Buffett “If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.” ― Warren Buffett “In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” ― Warren Buffett “Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about” ― Warren Buffett “If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.” ― Warren Buffett “I like it when people say, ‘Gee, that’s a pretty good-looking painting.’ But it’s my painting, and when somebody says, ‘Why don’t you use more red instead of blue?’ Good-bye. It’s my painting. And I don’t care what they sell it for. The painting itself will never be finished. That’s one of the great things about it.” ― Warren Buffett