“The IT job is one where you get an F if you fail but only a C if you succeed.”
Bill Gates
Business @ the Speed of Thought (Primary source)
Business @ the Speed of Thought, co-authored with Collins Hemingway, is Bill Gates’ second major book and his most sustained argument for how digital technology should reshape the internal workings of a company.
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“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Men who hesitate never succeed in their undertakings.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed