Quote by Bill Gates
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, bu

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited its less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. – Bill Gates

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Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. – Bill Gates

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Business
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Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers – organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative – if we dont solve these security problems, then people will hold back. – Bill Gates

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Computers
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In this business, by the time you realize youre in trouble, its too late to save yourself. Unless youre running scared all the time, youre gone. – Bill Gates

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Business
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I dont represent the entire gay community because its a vast, vast community, as one can imagine. – K. D. Lang

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Society

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that Im a good person to society. Thats hard. The talent, thats a gift. I just came here like that. – Erykah Badu

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Society

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

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Society

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. – Dean Kamen

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Society

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On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. – Michael Sheen

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I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity. – John Hawley

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde

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Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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