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
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
I spend a lot of time reading.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity
Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
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.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.