A Quote by Bill Gates

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

Bill Gates

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Bill Gates
American - Businessman
Born: October 28, 1955

Success is a lousy teacher.

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Bill Gates

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Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

James Avery

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you shouldn't do. Success is not limited to any one area of your life. It encompasses all the facets of your relationships: as parent, as wife or husband, as citizen, neighbor, worker and all of the others. Success is not confined to any one part of your personality but is related to the development of all the parts: body, mind, heart and spirit. It is making the most of your total self.

Wilferd Peterson

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Shah Rukh Khan

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Don Winslow

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

Geoffrey Canada

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

Dave Chappelle

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Harnaam Kaur

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Zig Ziglar

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

Joe Gores

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