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I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! ”
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done. ”
Eventually, all companies are replaced. ”
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. ”
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years. ”
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. ”
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. ”
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ”
Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. ”
The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite. ”