Who is Bill Gates and his Philosophy | Facts about Microsoft | 20 Bill Gates Quotes

Who is Bill Gates ?

William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist, born on October 28, 1955, Seattle to Mary Maxwell Gates and William H. Gates, Sr. He is having 3 children namely; Jennifer Katherine Gates, Rory John Gates, Phoebe Adele Gates.
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Bill Gates : “There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PC’s. But there’s no one who likes PC who doesn’t like Microsoft”

Facts about Bill Gates

1. Bill Gates, the most successful college dropout of all time. He only went to Harvard for 2 years. After 30 years, in 2007, Harvard granted him an honorary doctorate.

2. His house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

3. He has given away approximately $28 billion since 2007 and has saved approximately 6 million lives.

4. He has donated more than half of his net wealth $61 billion. This was calculated to be $36,854,000,000.

5. Bill Gates does not allow his wife and children to use Apple devices, instead for the iPad or iPod.

6. He scored 1590 out of a total of 1600 on the SAT, while Paul Allen, his partner in ‘Microsoft’, scored a perfect 1600.

7. If he drops a $100 note it is not worth his time to stop walking and pick it up.

8. Bill Gates was number one on the Forbes list of The World’s

9. Richest People for 13 straight years, from 1995 to 2007.

10. Before he invented Microsoft, he used to sell his body for computer parts.

Bill Gates Philosophy | 20 Bill Gates Quotes

1. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

2. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

3. I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

4. I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

5. I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

6. If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

7. If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.

8. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

9. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

10. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

11. If you born poor, it is not your mistake but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

12. I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

13. Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

14. Life is not fair; get used to it.

15. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

16. Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

17. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

18. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

19. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

20. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Facts about Microsoft

1. Microsoft engineers wrote 45 million lines of code for the Windows XP.

2. Microsoft owner Bill Gates earns $7.8 billion a year, which is about $20 million a day, or also $250 per second!

3. Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” Ads were created on a Mac !