Bill Gates grew up in Seattle and showed an early interest in computers. He dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft with Paul Allen. Guided by a vision of computers in every home and office, Microsoft became hugely successful with its MS-DOS and Windows operating systems. Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 but remains chairman of Microsoft. He and his wife Melinda have also established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address global health and development issues.

1. Bill Gates
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2.  William (Bill) H. Gates is chairman of Microsoft
Corporation, business mogul, investor,
philanthropist, and widely known as one of the
most richest and influential people in the world.
How did he manage to make such an
astonishing career? What is the secret of
his great success?

3.  Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle. Their
father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late
mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of
Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way
International.
Gate’s family (From left to right, William Henry Gates, Lillian
Elizabeth Gates, Bill Gates Sr. and his only sibling, Merridy Gates).

4.  Gates attended public
elementary school and
the private Lakeside
School. There, he
discovered his interest
in software and began
programming
computers at age 13.
Gates with classmate and
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
(left) in the computer room at
Seattle’s Lakeside School (1969)

5.  In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as
a freshman, where he lived down the hall from
Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive
officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a
version of the programming language BASIC for
the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
MITS Altair 8800 Computer
with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy
disk system.

6.  In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote
his energies to Microsoft, a company he had
begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul
Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer
would be a valuable tool on every office desktop
and in every home, they began developing
software for personal computers. Gates' foresight
and his vision for personal computing have been
central to the success of Microsoft and the
software industry.

7.  «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».
Bill Gates.

8.  In 1999, Gates wrote "Business @ the Speed of
Thought", a book that shows how computer
technology can solve business problems in
fundamentally new ways.

9.  On June 27, 2008, Gates transitioned out of a
day-to-day role in the company to spend more
time on his global health and education work at
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
 You can see the last speech of Bill Gates
on this page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxKP
gcR1oyE&feature=related

10.  Philanthropy is very important to Gates. He
and his wife, Melinda, started a foundation in
2000 to help reduce inequities in the United
States and around the world. To learn more
about the foundation,
visit www.gatesfoundation.org
Bill and Melinda Gates,
June 2009

11. «Whether it's Google or Apple or free
software, we've got some fantastic
competitors and it keeps us on our toes».
Bill Gates.

13. Values
You can learn a lot about someone or a company by their
values. The values of a company reflect the
leadership. Here are the values and guiding principles
that can help you see a little more about Bill.
Microsoft Values:
 Integrity and honesty.
 Passion for customers, partners, and technology.
 Open and respectful with others and dedicated to
making them better.
 Willingness to take on big challenges and see them
through.
 Self-critical, questioning, and committed to personal
excellence and self-improvement.
 Accountable for commitments, results, and quality to
customers, shareholders, partners, and employees.

14.  «Science and technology have great
potential to improve lives around the
world».
Bill Gates.

15. Bill Gates’ 11
Rules of Life

16.  There is a list of rules for life that you don’t learn in
school that often gets attributed to Bill Gates:
 Rule 1: Life is not fair, get used to it.
 Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The
world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you
feel good about yourself.
 Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high
school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until
you earn both.
 Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss.
 Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they
called it opportunity.

17.  Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
 Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring
as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool
you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from
the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the
closet in your own room.
 Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and
losers, but life HAS NOT.
 Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters.
 Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.
 Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working
for one.

19.  «It’s fine to celebrate success but it is
more important to heed the lessons of
failure».
Bill Gates.

20.  Passion, intensity, and tenacity. That’s
one way to describe Bill Gates.
 Let’s listen to advices of Bill Gates. May
be it will help us to turn our lives in the
right direction!

21. «If you see happy people don’t envy
them. You don’t even know how they
fought for their happiness».

22. Links:
 http://sourcesofinsight.com/lessons-
learned-from-bill-gates/
 http://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/news/exec/billg/
 http://sourcesofinsight.com/how-to-think-
like-bill-gates/
 http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/
 http://topics.wsj.com/person/G/bill-
gates/685