A Quote by Bill Gates

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Bill Gates

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Bill Gates
American - Businessman
Born: October 28, 1955

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Wendy Kopp

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Brendan Iribe

Business requires an unbelievable level of resilience inside you, the chokehold on the growth of your business is always the leader, it's always your psychology and your skills - 80% psychology, 20% skills. If you don't have the marketing skills, if you don't have the financial-intelligence skills, if you don't have the recruiting skills, it's really hard for you to lead somebody else if you don't have fundamentally those skills. And so my life is about teaching those skills and helping people change the psychology so that they live out of what's possible, instead of out of their fear.

Marc Benioff

Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.

Lela Loren

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Richard Branson

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Finn Balor

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George W. Bush

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Martin Freeman

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

Jim Cantalupo

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Paula Wagner

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Ken Xie

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

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Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

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