My Top 10 Quotes from Bill Gates.

1. It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

2. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

3. Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player.

4. [Intelligence is] an elusive concept. There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To walk into a situation, have something explained to you and immediately say, “Well, what about this?” To ask an insightful question. To absorb it in real time. A capacity to remember. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

5. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world … if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

6. If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act.

7. A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

8. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

9. I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

10. The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

_Bill Gates

Grow. Love. Live the passion way. Your friend in success. Mantist Oryem