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
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
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.
American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.
If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.