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
Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.
Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems
I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it "tap dancing to work."
We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!
The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.
We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.