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
Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.
The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.
There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.
Windows 95 was a nice milestone.
The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening.