out Quotes “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” ― Bill Gates “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 “Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.” ― Bill Gates “Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” ― Bill Gates “The climate is like a bathtub that’s slowly filling up with water. Even if we slow the flow of water to a trickle, the tub will eventually fill up and water will come spilling out onto the floor. That’s the disaster we have to prevent. Setting a goal to only reduce our emissions—but not eliminate them—won’t do it.” ― 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 “If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and then imagine spreading the pain out over a much longer period of time.” ― Bill Gates “times with follow-up questions. Eventually it sank in. The world needs to provide more energy so the poorest can thrive, but we need to provide that energy without releasing any more greenhouse gases. Now the problem seemed even harder. It wasn’t enough to deliver cheap, reliable energy for the poor. It also had to be clean.” ― 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 “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 “If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.” ― Jeff Bezos “I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.” ― Jeff Bezos “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 “We’ve made mistakes, doozies like the Fire Phone and many other things that just didn’t work out. I won’t list all of our failed experiments, but the big winners pay for thousands of failed experiments.” ― Jeff Bezos “It’s not easy to work here (when I interview people I tell them, “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three”), but we are working to build something important, something that matters to our customers, something that” ― Jeff Bezos “AWS is customer obsessed, inventive and experimental, long-term oriented, and cares deeply about operational excellence.” ― Jeff Bezos “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three”),” ― 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 “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 “Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” ― 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 “One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.” ― 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 “You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.” ― 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 “If something is important enough, you should try even if the probable outcome is failure.” ― Elon Musk “Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed” ― Elon Musk “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” ― 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 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 “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 “There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?” ― 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 “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” ― 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 “You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out.” ― Warren Buffett “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.” ― Warren Buffett “Tell me who your heroes are and I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out to be.” ― Warren Buffett “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett “[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.” ― 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 “An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.” ― Warren Buffett “Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press” ― 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 “It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.” ― Warren Buffett “Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about” ― Warren Buffett “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.” ― 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 “If you’ve got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you’ve got a very good business. If you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by 10%, then you’ve got a bad business.” ― Warren Buffett “Ideas don’t come out fully formed , they only become clearer as you work on them . You just have to get started.” ― 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 “People don't care about what you say, they care about what you build.” ― Mark Zuckerberg “Getting the team to a good state is not a milestone by itself that I care about.” ― Mark Zuckerberg When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference. ― Mark Zuckerberg The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry - a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely - to push in a coherent direction. ― Mark Zuckerberg Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on. ― Mark Zuckerberg The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?' ― Mark Zuckerberg The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. ― Mark Zuckerberg Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now. ― Mark Zuckerberg This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people. ― 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 The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense. ― Mark Zuckerberg It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there. ― Mark Zuckerberg I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social. ― Mark Zuckerberg Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January. ― Mark Zuckerberg We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority. ― Mark Zuckerberg “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” ― Marilyn Monroe “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.