1. Bill Gates
Made by Kolodkina Ekaterina, RIMO-203.

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. Education
 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. Higher education
 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
 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
 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.  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.

17.  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.
 Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not
your parents’ fault, so don’t
whine about your mistakes, learn
from them.

18.  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.

19.  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.

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

22.  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!

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

24. 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