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
If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right.
If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.
Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.
Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.