Bill Gates: heritage, life, phrases and advice 🆙

Let's find out the net worth, life, career, quotes and advice of Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist who founded Microsoft.

Bill Gates and General Equity:

Full name:	William Henry GatesIII
Net Assets:	$ 98,9 billion
Age:	64
Date of Birth:	October 28 1955
Country of origin:	United States of America
Richness' fountain:	microsoft founder
Last update:	2020

Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft and is the second richest man in the world. Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975 and has since become the world's largest software company.

Bill Gates' net worth is currently estimated at $98 billion, and even though Jeff Bezos has now surpassed him, 98 billion is still 98 billion!

The life

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He is the son of William H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates.

The Gates family has always encouraged competition; no matter what it was, there was always a reward for whoever won and there was always a penalty for whoever lost.

When he was 13 years old, Bill enrolled at Lakeside School; and when he was in eighth grade, the school's Moms Group used available funds to purchase an ASR Teletype Model 33 terminal and time to use a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Remember that in those days there were no Personal Computers, but the most that ordinary people could afford was to connect via terminal to large and bulky computers, housed in dedicated warehouses.

Gates became interested in BASIC programming of the GE system and to pursue this interest he was allowed to skip math class.

The Computer Center Corporation (CCC), however, banned Bill Gates for the entire summer, as it discovered that he and three of his friends were exploiting bugs in the operating system to gain additional computational time.

At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computation time. And that's how Bill Gates started studying programming.

The race

When Bill and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, they had the ambition to bring a computer to every home. And at that time, thinking of such a thing was ambitious beyond the impossible.

His vision has become a reality in many parts of the world, and personal technology is now an integral part of society.

Bill is still passionate about the work of Microsoft and will always be involved with the company given his current role as a board member and technology consultant.

Today, however, Bill focuses most of his time on the work he and Melinda are doing through their charitable foundations. People are often surprised to hear him say that this job has a lot in common with his job at Microsoft.

Either way, he manages to bring smart people together and collaborate with them to solve big, tough problems.

As it is, Bill Gates' net worth is $98 billion.

Highlights:

These are some of the milestones in Bill Gates' career:

1967: Enrolls in Lakeside School where he uses a computer for the first time
1968: Begins programming with Paul Allen at the computer center.
1973: enters Harvard University
1975: founds Microsoft with Paul Allen
2002: creates the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2006: Helps launch TerraPower, with the goal of developing cheaper, safer and more sustainable nuclear power.
2013: Donate $5,5 million to end polio in 2018

Bill Gates: the best quotes

“Success is a bad teacher. It pushes smart people to think they can't lose."

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"Your most dissatisfied customers are your most important source of information."

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"It's okay to celebrate success, but it's more important to learn from failure."

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"If we look to the next century, the leaders will be the ones who value other people."

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"Life is unfair, get used to it."

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Successful Lessons from Bill Gates

Now that you know all about Bill Gates' net worth and how he achieved success, here are 3 success lessons you can learn from the famous founder of Microsoft:

1. Be prepared to take risks

Bill Gates strongly encourages the idea of taking risks and believes that it is the only way to get to live the life you want and be successful. Don't be afraid to take risks.

2. Accept failure and move on

Sooner or later you will fail. It is part of the normal process of personal growth, you cannot avoid it. However, the best thing to do when failure occurs is to accept it, learn as much as possible from it, and move on.

3. Be proud of who you are

Stop comparing yourself to others. Don't be afraid to be unique and be proud of yourself and the qualities you possess.

Conclusions

Bill Gates is now the second richest man in the world after Jeff Bezos ousted him from the top spot. As of 2020, Bill Gates' net worth is $99 billion. When will it hit 100 billion?