Bill Gates – Interesting Facts and Coolest quotes

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William Henry Gates, the person who never graduated from a college, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Microsoft. His net worth as on March 2012 was $61 Billion. He founded Microsoft in year 1975 along with his friend Paul Allen.

He was rated as the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in year 1987. He was listed in the pages of Forbes’ 400 Richest People in America issue when he was 32 years old.

Introduction:

Name: William Henry “Bill” Gates III

Born: 28^th October 1955 in Seattle, USA

Age: 56 Years

Major Fields:

• Entrepreneur
• Computer Programmer
• Philanthropist
• Author

Books:

• The Road Ahead
• Business @ the Speed of Thought

Interesting facts about Bill Gates:

• He is ranked among world’s richest people wherein he scored number one in the list from 1995 till 2009, except 2008 wherein he was ranked number three.

• In 1973 he became a student at Harvard University but dropped out in year 1975 wherein he decided to follow his dreams. He had interest in software and programming since early age.
  

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• At the age of thirteen he started writing his own programs and at the age of twenty years he formed Microsoft. He wrote his first program which was tic-tac-toe game that allowed users to play against the computer.

• He created his first venture – Traf-O-Data , at the age 17 with Paul Allen to make traffic counters built on the Intel 8008 processor.

• Bill Gates functioned as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives in year 1973.

• His company became famous for their computer operating systems – MS DOS and later Microsoft Windows. He worked on aggressively broadening the company’s product line by holding the position of Product Strategist from Microsoft’s founding year 1975 till 2006.

• In year 2000, Bill Gates established Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with his wife and has been pursuing number of philanthropic endeavors. His organization has been donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs around the world.

• Bill Gates also appeared in a series of ads to promote Microsoft in 2008.

Some cool quotes by Bill Gates:

• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
• If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.
• If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.
• Life is not fair; get used to it.
• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
• Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.