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
Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.
Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.
I have $100 billion… You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime…
We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !
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.
You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.
I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.
I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world.
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.
I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.
Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.