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
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Common Core is a big win for education.
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.
I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.
The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
Change the boundaries of business.
You can be a business thinker.
Success is a lousy teacher.