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 definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.
I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.
Patience is a key element of success.
If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.