The World Motivation
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
“I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.”
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.
A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.
The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
I was richer than Bill Gates for 3 days.
You could tell three things about Bill Gates pretty quickly. He was really smart. He was really competitive; he wanted to show you how smart he was. And he was really, really persistent.
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.