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
Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.
Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.
An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.