110+ Bill Gates Quotes On Success, Technology And Climate Change

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world's largest personal-computer software company. Gates has held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world for several years, and has donated billions of dollars to charity. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bill Gates on success, technology, life.

Top 10 Bill Gates Quotes

1. I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
2. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
3. Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
4. I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
5. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
6. I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
7. Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
8. Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
9. It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
10. If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates Image Quotes

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. — Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Short Quotes

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
• How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
• If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
• When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.
• Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
• If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
• If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
• Convert bad news to good news.
• Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates Quotes About Success

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. — Bill Gates

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates

Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. — Bill Gates

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing. — Bill Gates

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. — Bill Gates

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things. — Bill Gates

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. — Bill Gates

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. — Bill Gates

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies. — Bill Gates

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Technology

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. — Bill Gates

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. — Bill Gates

We're changing the world with technology. — Bill Gates

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly. — Bill Gates

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective. — Bill Gates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. — Bill Gates

Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. — Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Life

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. — Bill Gates

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement. — Bill Gates

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. — Bill Gates

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. — Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. — Bill Gates

Life's not fair, get over it! — Bill Gates

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. — Bill Gates

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Climate Change

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent. — Bill Gates

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. — Bill Gates

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. — Bill Gates

It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear. — Bill Gates

Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing. — Bill Gates

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk. — Bill Gates

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number. — Bill Gates

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Leadership

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty. — Bill Gates

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration. — Bill Gates

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems. — Bill Gates

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone. — Bill Gates

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end. — Bill Gates

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. — Bill Gates

Patience is a key element of success. — Bill Gates

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position. — Bill Gates

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting. — Bill Gates

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Knowledge

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into. — Bill Gates

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to. — Bill Gates

Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology. — Bill Gates

And knowledge management is a means, not an end. — Bill Gates

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge. — Bill Gates

The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills. — Bill Gates

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers. — Bill Gates

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Money

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — Bill Gates

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will. — Bill Gates

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. — Bill Gates

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them. — Bill Gates

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place. — Bill Gates

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. — Bill Gates

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved. — Bill Gates

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things. — Bill Gates

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Computers

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. — Bill Gates

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. — Bill Gates

Two years from now, spam will be solved. — Bill Gates

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive. — Bill Gates

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. — Bill Gates

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. — Bill Gates

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer — Bill Gates

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. — Bill Gates

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Innovative

Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things. — Bill Gates

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts. — Bill Gates

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. — Bill Gates

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. — Bill Gates

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. — Bill Gates

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf. — Bill Gates

I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started. — Bill Gates

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development. — Bill Gates

We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can." — Bill Gates

People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About People

If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain. — Bill Gates

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. — Bill Gates

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. — Bill Gates

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. — Bill Gates

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. — Bill Gates

The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people. — Bill Gates

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it. — Bill Gates

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. — Bill Gates

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. — Bill Gates

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About World

Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today. — Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. — Bill Gates

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. — Bill Gates

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world — Bill Gates

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can. — Bill Gates

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. — Bill Gates

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. — Bill Gates

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. — Bill Gates

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. — Bill Gates

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Software

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. — Bill Gates

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have. — Bill Gates

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming. — Bill Gates

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks. — Bill Gates

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software. — Bill Gates

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. — Bill Gates

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. — Bill Gates

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. — Bill Gates

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. — Bill Gates

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Microsoft

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. — Bill Gates

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals. — Bill Gates

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth." — Bill Gates

It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting. — Bill Gates

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination. — Bill Gates

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money. — Bill Gates

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence — Bill Gates

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. — Bill Gates

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Quotes About Countries

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things. — Bill Gates

In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work? — Bill Gates

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil. — Bill Gates

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. — Bill Gates

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. — Bill Gates

I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago. — Bill Gates

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things. — Bill Gates

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing. — Bill Gates

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them. — Bill Gates

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. — Bill Gates

Bill Gates Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. — Bill Gates

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. — Bill Gates

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. — Bill Gates

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. — Bill Gates

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. — Bill Gates

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone. — Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. — Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. — Bill Gates

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action. — Bill Gates

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. — Bill Gates

So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side. — Bill Gates

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. — Bill Gates

If you're asking whether I intentionally mess up my hair, no, I don't. And certain things, like my freckles, they're just there. I don't do anything consciously. I suppose I could get contact lenses. I suppose I could comb my hair more often. — Bill Gates

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water. — Bill Gates

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep. — Bill Gates

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. — Bill Gates

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out. — Bill Gates

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping. — Bill Gates

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world. — Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system. — Bill Gates

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news. — Bill Gates

To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies. — Bill Gates

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created. — Bill Gates

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. — Bill Gates

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement. — Bill Gates

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. — Bill Gates

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. — Bill Gates

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. — Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. — Bill Gates

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. — Bill Gates

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest. — Bill Gates

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information. — Bill Gates

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. — Bill Gates

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. — Bill Gates

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. — Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you. — Bill Gates

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. — Bill Gates

You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. — Bill Gates

Life Lessons by Bill Gates

1. Bill Gates is a great example of the power of hard work and dedication. He worked tirelessly to build Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in the world.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of giving back and helping others, donating billions of dollars to charity and philanthropic causes.
3. Lastly, Gates is an advocate for lifelong learning, emphasizing the importance of staying curious and continually educating yourself in order to stay ahead of the curve.