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
We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing to the graphics interface seems so obvious that now it's hard to keep a straight face.
Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!