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
With Windows, people have a vast choice of tools, applications and devices to start anything they like.
In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
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 GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?
I spend a lot of time reading.
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.
As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice...