William Henry Gates III
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and donated some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create the “William H. Gates Foundation.” In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and Gates donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for NGOs company in 2013, as the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation, with assets reportedly valued at more than $34.6 billion. The Foundation allows benefactors to access information that shows how its money is being spent, unlike other major charitable organizations such as the Wellcome Trust.As of 2007, Bill and Melinda Gates were the second-most generous philanthropists in America, having given over $28 billion to charity; the couple plan to eventually donate 95 percent of their wealth to charity.
Quotes of Bill Gates
1.Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
2.I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
3.Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
4.If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.
5.Life is not fair get, used to it!
6.We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
7.It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
8.We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
9.Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
10.Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
11.As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
11.We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
12.The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.
13.The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
14.I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
15.If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?