Bill Gates - Company Quotes

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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Bill Gates
The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

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Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

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Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.

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In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

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Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.

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The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.

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One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

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Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.

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How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

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To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

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