"I want to start with a quote by Bill Gates on Bill Gates and then I want to tell you this excellent Larry Ellison quote on Bill Gates that I found. So first this is Bill Gates on Bill Gates. He says a..."

"Gates. And then I stripped away everything that wasn't his approach to building his company. And so, I'm going to go through book by book. So, let's start with source code. A lot of this that I pulled..."

"costs. They give you easy to use corporate cards for your entire team, automated expense reporting and cost control. RAMP helps you run an efficient organization which Bill Gates was obsessed with doi..."

"noted at an early age of what was to come. I channeled intensity into anything that interested me and nothing that didn't. Bill Gates lives in binary states. This will pop up over and over again. He i..."

"know, the idea that I'm going to try to take on the world's biggest company with $1,000 from my dorm room. And he says, "Was I a little full of myself at 19?" Sure, I was. I think you have to be to do..."

"interest is transformed into real skill." That is so important. This period, which was really just about four months, meanted a work style for me that would last for decades. Unconstrained by cost or ..."

"studied Akio Marita and and Sony. And one of the most interesting ideas that Akio Marita wrote about in his autobiography which is a book called Made in Japan was the fact that he believed more compan..."

"that he just focuses on the task until it's done, that he's willing to work to the edge of exhaustion and collapse in his clothes with his face in the keyboard and then jump back up and go right back ..."

"That is why it's dangerous to rush through things and to skip over things. I reread that paragraph probably 15 times before I just read it to you. It is one of the craziest things to understand in thi..."

"independent company? He has one customer. They're working very close with them. He and it's a crappy run and it's a crappy run company. We've got to diversify away from this guy as soon as we can. Ano..."

"exclusive license. If MITs agreed to make best efforts to license our source code, their lawyers push back saying that nobody agreed to best efforts. They would consider instead the term reasonable ef..."

"the 24-hour a day partner I needed. And so the book source code ends when they relocate from Albuquerque to Washington. And so he is driving back. And I think this is one of the most important things ..."

"Although Bill did not know what he was going to do with his life after high school, he seemed confident that whatever he would do would make him a lot of money. He had made such a prediction about his..."

"prioritized sales over everything. What sustained the company was not Bill's ability to write programs. Bill sustained Microsoft through tireless salesmanship. For several years, he alone made the col..."

"out and I think is interesting because now we've fast forwarded in Microsoft's history and we see that this focus and intensity is still there. Neither marriage nor fame nor fortune had diminished the..."

"you can imagine, there's a bunch of interesting stories and anecdotes about Bill Gates in it. I mentioned this earlier, the fact that Bill lived in binary states. He was either bursting with nervous e..."

"look into him and just pay attention to his career. He's still young. He's still in his 20s and he's running one of the most important AI companies today. And so I absolutely love that little piece of..."

"Bill was very adamant, this is the most important part. This is why I just read this these this entire section to you. This is the part that you should remember. Bill was very adamant that we should m..."

"we had many customers who went bankrupt. In other words, we had a wide margin for error. I always wanted to have enough money in the bank so that if nobody paid us for a year, we would be okay. And he..."