Bill Gates Quotes


My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.


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Gates, Bill. Quoted in Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. John Wiley & Sons, 1992.

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Bill Gates
Bill Gates
  • Born: October 28, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Software Developer, Investor, Entrepreneur

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates is also co-founder and chairman of TerraPower that is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants, in an effort to tackle climate change.