Bill Gates, one of the most powerful businessmen on earth, people wonder why he is so rich and wealthy, he is one of the richest people on Earth. He owns almost any business that you can think of. How did he do this though? He used the free enterprise system, a system that gives you the ability to make your own economic decisions. He used the free enterprise system because it best suited his welares for example, Microsoft,Microsoft thrived by giving the people what they neeed at a lower price.
DeAvion A. Stevenson Mrs. Cox American Studies 16 September 2014 Horatio Gates Horatio Gates served as an American general during the Revolutionary War; he was known to be one of the Revolutions most vexed military figures. Gates encountered many successful battles, he was also known for having very little courage when it came to fighting in the fields. Furthermore, Gates generated a plan to have George Washington removed as commander-in-chief of the Continental army. Lastly, Horatio was prominent for being in constant competition with George Washington, causing friction between the two leaders.
Over his past days of his life merits the title of the “Wealthiest person known in recent history” also, according to the percentage of the United States’ GDP (Gross Domestic Product). It is believed that no other wealthier people of America including Bill Gates or Sam Walton would have come close to that of
"He wants to do it now. He speeds to Cupertino and says, drop everything, we're doing this at this very moment.". In jobs successful story it wasn't about being a genius it was about attitude. Jobs was also born in the right place at the right time in Silicon Valley.¨Coincidence? Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was born in 1953, Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs in 1955, and
Bill Gates was a wealthy man who might have been greedy and only in for the money. He was also a generous man who employed a lot of people and donated $40 million. Most revered critics believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt was a Robber Baron. For example, he was never known to engage in philanthropic activities
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days year fails to make his family rich”(Gladwell 249). In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell shows that many factors come into play when looking at successful people. He shows that a series of luck, work ethic, and persistence can lead to success. When looking at people like Bill Gates and Bill Joy, Gladwell shows how these factors came into play in their early lives and allowed them to build their opportunity to become successful. Gates and Joy worked hard at what they were passionate about and ended up creating two major technological companies.
”(Krakauer, Pg17) Bill Gates and Wayne Westerberg both ran their own business. Wayne Westerberg is the owner of a grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota. “...Founded and built the world’s largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics. ”(Bill Gates
The Beginning Of A Change Bacon’s Rebellion was the start of a change. It was an early showing of the revolutionary change that would take place nearly a hundred years later referencing to the American Revolution. Bacon’s Rebellion was important because it showed the early desire of Democracy among the Colonial Americans’ in the House of Burgesses. Nathaniel Bacon and governor William Berkeley did not always have a troublesome relationship. They were actually cousins due to Berkeley’s marriage to Bacon’s cousin.
He could have easily just said I am tired of having to get up at night or I do not feel like working on a program for someone else, but he did not. He keep looking for other computer labs and other things to work on. He had to put in lots of hours, and he did not do it for the money because back then the only payment he would get is some free computer time. His passion is what made him successful. His no quit attitude and dream to make his own computers are why Bill Gates is a
Gladwell mentions: “It as a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage” (Gladwell, 2008). On the story of Bill Gates, Gladwell points how much programming background and the opportunities he faced before dropping college at his sophomore year and later becoming one of the most successful men in the world by developing personal computers. Bill Gates was born in 1955. He came from a wealthy family. He was going to Lakeside school, where they happened to have a
Although Gates grew up in a privileged home, he had to climb his way up the success ladder. He began with simple computer programing interests but these interests would lead him down a path of working hard and earnestly to perfect the software that would become revolutionary and lead to the success of Gates becoming one of the richest men in the world. However, he did not become a man consumed by the vanity. Immediately, he worked to fund associations that encouraged causes such as education, world health, and low income neighborhoods (Biography of Bill Gates). At first he funded these associations separately but he later combined them to make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This first setback didn 't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company. Bill Gates: Gates didn 't seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn 't work, Gates ' later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft. Harland David Sanders: Perhaps better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame, Sanders had a hard time selling his chicken at first. In fact, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant
Lastly Steve Jobs is a persistent person, who always tries to achieve his goals and never gives up. One can observe this in his attempts to get venture capitalist funding as well as in his persistence with regards to his employee
Bill Gates had a dream of developing Software since his childhood. But he didn’t have resources at that time. I would have given up on my dreams. But Bill Gates was a different kind of a person. He didn’t give up when he didn’t have resources to produce an operating system for IBM.
The success of Bill Gates depends not only on his effort, but also
