Sentences with phrase «think bill gates»

And at some point, the wealth created became solidified as it were by either selling the business (as the great philanthropist Irving Harris did with his firm, Toni Home Permanents) or taking it public (think Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos with Microsoft and Amazon).

Do you think Bill Gates cares about suburban children, let alone urban children?

Do you think Bill Gates just woke up as one of the richest men in the world?

As a Silicon Valley guy, Elop once thought Bill Gates's evil empire couldn't innovate its way out of a paper bag.

Not exact matches

Some of the most successful people in the world dedicate a surprisingly large chunk of time to uninterrupted thinking, including Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

For some reason, people think: «learn this one quick trick that Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, or whoever does.»

Bill Gates is the father of this trend with his long - standing and well publicized habit of taking two «Think Weeks» for deep study and reflection each year.

Billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates has a new favorite book: «Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.»

When trying to make your way in the world as an emerging entrepreneur, don't think of yourself as the next Bill Gates — or even the next Richard Branson.

Bill Gates has said, «Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.»

«If Larry could make the world think there was a contest between him and Bill Gates,» Wilson told Canadian Business, «that was good for Larry and bad for Bill.»

Think: Warren Buffett (has never sold a share of Berkshire Hathaway since 1967) or Bill Gates (he sells shares but for 20 years basically held onto his MSFT stock).

If you think about it, it's not unlike those must - read book lists pushed to you as an adult professional, the ones that Richard Branson or Bill Gates purportedly tell you simply must be read if you are ever to be the success you long to be.

Think of the multibillion - dollar commitments made by Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and, more recently, Alphabet's Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

The first tip - off that a commitment to continual self - improvement is key to leadership success is the fact that nearly every business icon you can think of — from Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to Oprah Winfrey — describes him - or herself as a perpetual learner.

But if you're about to go into 2018 thinking «go riddance» to a truly horrible year, Bill Gates would like to have a word with you.

Would Bill Gates have succeeded at Microsoft if he had thought of a computer as an oversized typewriter?

«When investors tell me, «Great idea, but we can't really vet the technology,» I can say, «Richard Branson and Bill Gates think it's great.»»

Think of the tech greats — Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, etc..

When we think of entrepreneurs deciding to go to space, like Branson, Musk, and Bezos, or take on malaria like Bill Gates, are we not seeing people expressing themselves with freedom like Monet in his later years, when he had the freedom to paint anything he wanted?

Melinda Gates, co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gives her thoughts on what a president - whether that be female or male - should act like.

«Bill Gates ran one of the most mission - driven companies I can think of,» he said at TechCrunch Disrupt conference in 2013.

Certainly we can all think of a few famous entrepreneurs who never exited and iterated, including Bill Gates of Microsoft and Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook.

Bill Gate Think Weeks Steve Jobs — zen meditation, stop responding to all that is coming in Success seen as money and power — 2 - legged stool.

Bill Gurley: Oh, I think I said, «I'm interested in looking at digital healthcare startups,» and created an email that was I think [email protected] and just kind of opened the flood gates on purpose.

If you thought that Bill Gates might have an ambition beyond just passive investing in the garbage and waste disposal sector, you might be correct.

This year, I like to ask in preface with... Bill Gates wrote, Warren's gift is being able to think ahead of the crowd.

One great example of the value of hard work is Bill Gates who said once on a Reddit: «20 years ago I would stay in the office for days at a time and not think twice about it.

In reality, you don't have to be secular to judge someone who thinks prisoners are mostly atheists and holds Bill Gates up as a paragon of greed as an idiot.

After all, you seem to think that half of Bill Gates» fortune going to charity isn't enough... so apparently you think he should donate it all?

This mayo is deelish and with financial backers like Bill Gates, expect HCF to be changing the way we think of vegan food in the very near future.

Our thoughts are also, with the 11 men from this squad who are no longer with us, including Bill Nicholson who's famous and loved gates still remain at White Hart Lane, RIP boys.

The researchers started by asking Christian volunteers to give their own views on controversial topics, such as abortion, followed by what they thought were the views of God, average Americans and public figures such as Bill Gates.

His 2008 talk at the TED Conference, the annual hajj of tech barons and thought leaders, has snagged more than 1.5 million hits since it was posted online; it also earned Stamets invitations to brainstorming sessions with Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the guys who run Google.

While the benefits of technology's expanding reach are abundant, many serious thinkers — including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates — have expressed fundamental concerns about the possibility that machines could come to exceed human capacity for thinking.

Rather than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, a middle - aged male Ph.D. toiling at a large U.S. firm — and perhaps born abroad — is more likely to be behind the next big thing, conclude researchers from George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

And yet I came to the Gates Foundation because I am so thrilled at something fundamental that Bill and Melinda have brought to thinking about making the world better, and that is accountability, metrics, a lens of return on investment.

In Bangkok, some delegates deplored the failure to subject the lack of progress toward an AIDS vaccine to critical scrutiny.8 José Esparza, a leading HIV vaccine advocate and an adviser on vaccines to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was frank in saying «we were wrong» to think that a vaccine could be discovered easily.9

In contrast, today, the world average is 67 years and it is much higher is developed nations Japan is 85 years and United States is 80 years, I don't think Albert Einstein ate lots of fat and refrained from eating grains and neither did Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or Nicola Tesla or Boeing or,... you get the picture.

While watching Jobs one can not help but think back on the 1999 TNT made - for - TV movie «Pirates of Silicon Valley,» starring Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates.

This game got way over criticized to the point I think a lot of gamers are becoming as disillusioned as IGN, because its actually a fun game with a pinch of Resident Evil nostalgia set in a what if universe and the game is like a cross between gears of war and left 4 dead, so maybe its a tad bit buggy, but its still a fun game and if you paid 10 or so bucks then you got moneys worth for sure, so don't pay attention to all the haters, because they probably drink the Bill Gates kool aid.

Think of Bill Gates or any accomplished athlete.

He describes Bill Gates's thoughts on the «ovarian lottery»: 30 years ago, if you had a choice between being born a genius in Bombay or average in Poughkeepsie, you would have chosen Poughkeepsie, because your chances of enjoying a decent life were greater there.

Even Bill Gates thinks it is something we must keep in mind and try to prevent from happening, but as of now, this scenario is far from occurring.

These original TED Talks are given by thought leaders including Geoffrey Canada, Bill Gates, Rita F. Pierson and Sir Ken Robinson.

Three years, 3,000 teachers and about $ 50 million later, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks it has the answers.

There's no compelling reason to believe, for instance, that Bill Gates is funding Core advocacy for any reason other than that he thinks it is beneficial, or that opponents are motivated by anything other than concern that the standards are inadequate, or amount to dangerous national standardization.

Tom Vander Ark, a former head of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and now a partner in a private equity fund focused on education innovation, thinks so.

Bill Gates says «Thank you» to all the forward thinking Nutmeggers who helped out with the purchase.

«I think [Supt.] John Deasy drank the Kool - Aid, so he's going to have to ultimately do what Bill Gates or Eli Broad would want to do,» said Rudy Crew, a professor at the University of Southern California's Rossier School for Education.