Bill Gates

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

  Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)

  • Business

• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

  The Road Ahead (1995)

  • Success

• Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

  • Computers

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy