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<h1>Bill<br> Gates</h1>
<h2>The <br>Influential <br>Individual</h2>
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“Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with.<br> In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are, it's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's <br>metric for success.It's not, and nor should it be.I've never gone into business to make money. <br>Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives.”<br>
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<p>Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle in a family having rich business, political and community service background. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather was vice president of national bank and his father was a lawyer.
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<p> Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain great position in the profession he chose also Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enroll him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers. Bill Gates and his friends were very much interested in computer and formed “Programmers Group” in late 1968.</p>
<p>Being in this group, they found a new way to apply their computer skill in university of Washington. In the next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. in which they were selected as programmers. ISI (Information Sciences Inc.) agreed to give them royalties, whenever it made money from any of the group’s program. As a result of the business deal signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also became a legal business.</p>
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<p> Bill Gates and his close friend Allen formed a new company of their own, Traf-O-Data. They developed a small computer to measure traffic flow. From this project they earned around $20,000. The era of Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. Upon graduating from Lakeside Bill enrolled in Harvard University in 1973, one of the best universities in the country, He didn’t know what to do, so he enrolled his name for pre-law. He took the standard freshman courses with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard’s toughest mathematics courses. He did well over there, but he couldn’t find it interesting too.
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<p>Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Then he formed Microsoft. Microsoft’s vision is “A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer”. Bill is a visionary person and works very hard to achieve his vision. His belief in high intelligence and hard work has put him where he is today. He does not believe in mere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness. Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companies and he will continue to stomp out (challenge) the competition until he dies. He likes to play the game of Risk and the game of world domination. His beliefs are so powerful, which have helped him increase his wealth and his monopoly in the industry.
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<p>1968 <br><br>Begins programming computers at age 13.<br><br>
1972 <br><br> Co-founds a company called Traf-O-Data, which analyzes local traffic patterns, while still in school.<br><br>
1972 <br><br> Congressional page in the US House of Representatives.<br><br>
1975 <br><br> Drops out of Harvard and co-founds Microsoft Corp. (formerly Micro Soft) with Paul Allen.<br><br>
1977-1982 <br><br> President of Microsoft.<br><br>
1980 <br><br> Develops MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) for IBM. Two million copies are sold by 1984, and by the early 1990s, more than 100 million copies are sold.<br><br>
1981-2014 <br><br> Chairman of the Board of Directors for Microsoft.<br><br>
1985 <br><br> Gates introduces the Microsoft Windows operating system to compete with Apple.<br><br>
Mid to late-1980s <br><br> Begins developing and promoting CD-ROM technology.<br><br>
1987 <br><br> Becomes the youngest US billionaire, worth $1.25 billion at 31 years old. That record is later broken by Mark Zuckerberg in 2010 and then Dustin Moskovitz in 2011.<br><br>
1989 <br><br> Founder of Corbis, a digital image company.<br><br>
May 1998 <br><br> The US Department of Justice, 20 states and the District of Columbia all file lawsuits accusing Microsoft of using illegal, anti-competitive and exclusionary practices.<br><br>
January 2000 <br><br> Resigns as CEO of Microsoft and becomes chief software architect.<br><br>
November 2001 <br><br> Microsoft reaches a settlement with the Justice Department in the antitrust case. Nine states agree to the settlement but nine other states and the District of Columbia consider the imposed sanctions too lenient.<br><br>
November 2002 <br><br> US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approves most of the proposed settlement between Microsoft and the Justice Department, ruling against the dissenting nine states and the District of Columbia.<br><br>
March 2, 2005 <br><br> Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
December 18, 2005 - Named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" along with his wife, Melinda, and musician Bono.<br><br>
June 15, 2006 <br><br> Announces that he will be giving up his daily role at Microsoft effective July 2008, to concentrate on his humanitarian and educational interests.<br><br>
June 7, 2007 <br><br> Delivers the commencement address at Harvard University, the school he dropped out of in 1975. He also receives an honorary degree.<br><br>
March 2008 - Falls to No. 3 on the Forbes' list of billionaires, after a 12-year run at the top of list.
June 27, 2008 <br><br> Gates retires from day-to-day work at Microsoft to concentrate on philanthropy.<br><br>
April 1, 2009 <br><br> Gates announces a partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Health to help fight an epidemic of tuberculosis in China, supported by a $33 million grant provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.<br><br>
January 29, 2010 <br><br> Gates Foundation announces it will donate $10 billion for vaccine research over the next 10 years.<br><br>
February 4, 2014 <br><br> Steps down as chairman of the board of Microsoft.<br><br>
November 22, 2016 <br><br> Receives, along with his wife, Melinda, the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.<br><br>
March 2017 <br><br> Tops the Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth of $86 billion at the time of publication.<br><br>
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<center><h4>Bill<br>Gates<br>Day</h4>
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When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic. In medicine, we've had a lot of miracles, and I think all of us expect and count on more.
In the next 30 years, I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria — our foundation is very involved — once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.</center>
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<center><h3>Bill's<br> Algorithm</h3>
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." While Gates was known for his domineering nature and his aversion to being challenged, this quote reveals he was not afraid to defer to subordinates when they had truly great ideas.
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." Though he is one of the most successful businessmen of all time, Gates suggests here that his failures are what have taught him the most.<br><br>
Gates once said, “No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time”. Bill Gates understands the importance of using the time in your day wisely, and prioritises tasks which matter most to him. If he doesn’t believe he needs to be at a meeting, he won’t attend. On the other hand, he takes the time to communicate with the people closest to him, and ensures that he makes time for important commitments.
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