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    Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
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    Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

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    Bill Gates is the most influential and recognizable name in the technology industry to date. A business magnate, avid investor, heavy philanthropist, and author of multiple books. He has made it into the top 0.1% and it would be an understatement to say Bill Gates is a success story. Some of his greatest moments arose on this journey to success and through studying his journey; it can help us better walk our own path. This book will take you through his successes, failures and learnable moments providing the key principles we can incorporate into our own lives for big results.

    This book takes a look at his life. From early beginnings in Seattle, to becoming the richest man in the world and beyond. We take a look at his first taste of failure with his initial business venture, following on with his major successes and failures along the way. The aim of this book is to be educational and inspirational with actionable principles you can incorporate into your own life straight from the great man himself.

    *INCLUDING* 50 Greatest Quotes, 20 Little Known Facts & 15 of Bill Gates Principles for Success!

    Don't wait, grab your copy today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Farrington
    Release dateAug 2, 2018
    ISBN9781386707813
    Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

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      Bill Gates - Influential Individuals

      Bill Gates

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      The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

      Influential Individuals

      Copyright © 2017 Influential Individuals

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Table of Contents

      EARLY LIFE

      BEGINNINGS IN BUSINESS

      THE YOUNG INVENTOR

      THE FIRST COMPANY

      THE FIRST OF MANY FAILURES

      LEGACY

      ADVICE FROM THE MAN HIMSELF

      PRINCIPLES FOR SUCCESS

      50 GREATEST QUOTES

      LITTLE KNOWN FACTS

      CURRENT DAY

      Early Life

      Bill Gates is the most influential and recognizable name in the technology industry to date. A business magnate, avid investor, heavy philanthropist, and author of multiple books. Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, together co-founded the technology mogul Microsoft, which quickly grew into the globe’s largest PC software company. Gates held different positions at Microsoft over the years, from chief software architect to chairperson and CEO. Up until May 2014, he was also the largest shareholder of the company.

      If that is not impressive enough, Gates is currently the richest person in the world with a net worth of over $87 billion. One of his most notable ventures in the latter years of his business ventures has been the partnership he took on with Warren Buffett when they founded The Giving Pledge. This was a cause that encouraged billionaires around the globe to make a pledge promising they would eventually give at least half their entire wealth to philanthropy.

      Born in Seattle, Washington to a father who was a very prominent lawyer in the community and a mother who regularly served on the Board of Directors for both United Way and First Interstate BancSystem. Growing up, his parents’ dream for him was to practice law like his father. Many people who knew the Gates family a similar view: they were incredibly competitive. Those who grew up and lived alongside the family have always said, no matter what, there was a reward for winning and a penalty for losing. It did not matter if the kids were playing pinball or competing in sports. The only thing that mattered was for every win, there was a reward, and for every loss, a consequence.

      This explains a lot behind Gates’ eventual wealth and success. He was raised in an environment that outwardly rewarded or penalized every action he made. This makes a child very aware of the decisions they are making and prompts them to learn how to reason and project possible futures based on the current scenario as well as actions taken. This is a skill that he would hone and develop as he grew older, and is argued to be the greatest driving force behind his current success as an adult.

      When he was 13, he officially enrolled into his first private prep school. He would end up exploring his first piece of technology that was paid for by the proceeds from a rummage sale the Mother’s Club was throwing. They ended up utilizing the profits to purchase a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal as well as a block of computer time on a General Electric computer. This was to benefit the entire student body as a whole, but obviously certain students took more of an interest than others. Gates was hooked and invested in learning how to program the system. His thirst for knowledge was so great that his math teachers would excuse him from class simply to allow him go and learn the system.

      This would be the machine he would write his first piece of code

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