how Quotes “In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...” ― Bill Gates “I believe that if you show people the problems and you show Them The Solutions They Will Be Moved To Act” ― 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 “But we can’t solve a problem like climate change without an honest accounting of how much we need to do and what obstacles we need to overcome.” ― Bill Gates “The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.” ― Jeff Bezos “Our success at Amazon is a function of how many experiments we do per year, per month, per week, per day.” ― Jeff Bezos “Einstein, likewise, realized how important it is to interweave the arts and the sciences. When he felt stymied in his quest for the theory of general relativity, he would pull out his violin and play Mozart, saying that the music helped connect him to the harmony of the spheres.” ― 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 “Constantly think about how you could be doing things better.” ― Elon Musk “Stop being patient and start asking yourself, how do I accomplish my 10-year plan in 6 months? You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.” ― Elon Musk “I really like computer games, but then if I made really great computer games, how much effect would that have on the world.” ― 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 “I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.” ― Elon Musk “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” ― 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 “Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.” ― Warren Buffett “I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” ― Warren Buffett “Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.” ― 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 “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 “I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes” ― Mark Zuckerberg “If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.” ― Mark Zuckerberg “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community” ― Mark Zuckerberg I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. ― Mark Zuckerberg I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today. ― Mark Zuckerberg All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. ― Mark Zuckerberg What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family. ― Mark Zuckerberg There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them. ― Mark Zuckerberg