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
Billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.
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.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
You can make money and you can make excuses, but you can never make money out of excuses
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Make it just like a Mac.