Bill Gates Quotes
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
Gates, Bill. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System. Warner Books, 1999.
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
He is one of the later people to express this idea but at the time, most political pundits and politicians were unaware of most of the others. See related quotes.
Hitti was describing the Arabs but the principle would apply to almost any people. See {585931} for a political expression of this principle. Also {594723}, {607508} and {605259}.
See Otis Singletary and Eddie Bernice Johnson for similar, earlier views.
This had been a principle of Sociology since. It is conceptually similar to political quotations such as {585931}.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} for a similar view and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. Otis Singletary for a contemporary one {585931} The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
See Otis Singletary and Eddie Bernice Johnson for a similar view.
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates is also co-founder and chairman of TerraPower that is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants, in an effort to tackle climate change.
