Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?
In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.
How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.