Stephen Manes & Paul Andrews - Zitate und Weisheiten

It was the kind of obsessive focus that even as an adult would keep his attention riveted on specific goals long after others had given them up.

The lessons Bill Gates was learning about cramming interpreted languages into tiny spaces would pay big dividends in the years to come.

Fearlessness, the inability to see limits: Again and again people would later ascribe those qualities to Bill Gates.

It was one of the earliest displays of his chameleonlike, Thomas Crown-like ability to change his skin, to transform his persona—and, eventually, his company’s—in order to “do business.”

“We could sell a promise and pull it off, because we had the money and the smart technical people and the commitment. And virtually everything that we sold was not a product when we sold it. We sold promises.”