- Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
- I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
- If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
- Life is not fair get, used to it!
- We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
- Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
- As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
- The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
- I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
- If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
- Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
- Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
- Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.
- Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.’
- Expectations are a form of first-class truth; If people believe it, it’s true.
- The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.
- When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
- Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
- 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.
- If you think your teacher is tough, wait ’til you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
- Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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