Sentences with phrase «time bill gates»

What if next time Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were by her side, while she and the President thanked them for major donations to the endowment?

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From Bill Gates to Warren Buffett, many icons of business are known to make time for good, old - fashioned reading.

Bill Gates might be pretty busy eradicating disease and lifting people out of poverty with his philanthropic work, but he still makes time to read.

After all, Bill Gates had only recently bought his own plane, and Microsoft staff couldn't even fly first class, according to The Times.

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.

All the entrepreneurial superstars over time, from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created rapid growth for their companies by making strategic bets and investing heavily.

Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, revealed in a weekend interview with Fox News Sunday that he is a recent convert to the software of a long - time business rival.

The success of legendary dropouts cited (satirically) on Silicon Valley — and of other self - made titans, like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Richard Branson — suggests that formal education may, in fact, be a waste of time for those naturally predisposed to empire building.

It was around this time that Bill Gates was creating his own version of a desktop spreadsheet program, and slowly Excel and Microsoft's Office encroached on Lotus 1 -2-3's turf.

Like his competitor Bill Gates, Steve Jobs strictly limited his kids» screen time.

In the TIME magazine article, Bill Gates cites Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature as the one book that has most influenced his philanthropy.

«A great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer,» Bock quotes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as saying.

In a deposition brought by Sir Martin Broughton, the Liverpool chairman at the time is asked if he understood «there was at least an attempt to contact Bill Gates and Bob Kraft in the US?»

Google's co-founders may not have the name recognition of say, Bill Gates, but give them time: Google hasn't been around nearly as long as Microsoft.

Or is it a hiccup in the style of Bill Gates who launched the Office Suite at the same time as gathering his senior staff to obsolesce the whole technology by going to the web....

For the moment, the tech industry is venerated much more than it is vilified; Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates were all among the 15 most admired men last time Gallup asked the question.

Gates continues to devote much of his time and energy to the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Some say Bill Gates pushed him out, but many say it was a life - changing experience for Allen and he saw there were other opportunities that he could invest his time in.

«Icahn should leave Apple alone and spend more time like Bill Gates,» said Gross, who runs the $ 250 - billion Pimco Total Return Fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach.

Bill Gates once wrote that being jealously protective of his time was an important lesson he'd learned from Buffett.

When Buffett met Bill Gates for the first time in 1991, he pulled out a datebook to schedule a time to meet or talk in the future.

The theme of the latest Time magazine, edited by Bill Gates, focuses on the fact the world is getting better.

Big profits from managing short lead times helped Amancio Ortega — Spanish business magnate, founder and chairman of the Inditex fashion group — recently pass Bill Gates's fortune for the second time.

With figures from last year's time of writing, Ferguson reports, «Six of the eight richest men in the world are Bill Gates (with personal wealth estimated at $ 76bn), Carlos Slim ($ 50bn), Jeff Bezos ($ 45bn), Mark Zuckerberg ($ 45bn), Larry Ellison ($ 44bn) and Michael Bloomberg ($ 40bn).

Bezos took the top spot on Forbes» world's billionaires list for the first time ever with a net worth of $ 112 billion at the end of 2017, leaping past Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

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.

While Apple maintains that helping the FBI access the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone would set a dangerous precedent, Bill Gates told the Financial Times that he doesn't quite see it that way:

The list of billionaires includes Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation who has already given away billions of dollars to charity as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who pledged to give away 99 per cent of his wealth during his life time in 2015.

His political activism has generated continual press attention, culminating last December in his being named Time magazine's «Person of the Year,» along with Bill and Melinda Gates.

As people have increasingly realized there is no sky - being looking out for us, donations to the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation, the Red Heart (f / k / a «Red Cross») and Doctors Without Borders are at an all time high.

Did you know that Bill Gates makes so much money every minute that if he is walking down the sidewalk, and sees a hundred dollar bill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick itBill Gates makes so much money every minute that if he is walking down the sidewalk, and sees a hundred dollar bill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick itbill lying there, it would be a waste of his time to stop and pick it up?

Does it make any sense to compare the life and times of Gutenberg or Luther with those of Bill Gates and Pope John Paul II?

Bill Gates recently pronounced, «In terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient.

At the same time, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new grant to fund this project in the Philippines and Bangladesh.

This week's featured article is «Midwives are essential to global heath» on TIME, written by Jerker Liljestrand of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program.

These days the former Microsoft boss Bill Gates devotes his time to running what has arguably become the most powerful charitable organisation in the world.

In a recent New York Times opinion piece even Bill Gates, a harsh critic of the old system of teacher evaluation, cautions against shaming educators by publishing teacher scores in the media.

There was a time — only as long ago as Bill Gates's first book — when the value of computers, whatever their size, was believed to lie mainly in their stand - alone power, not in the networks they might form when linked together.

Gates, who left Microsoft to work full - time for his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is spending $ 130,000 on antismoking advertisements that will appear at the games, which kick off August 8, according to the China Daily.

Well, my work at the [Bill & Melinda Gates] Foundation that will become my full - time focus is based on optimism that, whether it's software or biology, the advances can be shaped in a way to help the poorest two billion people on the planet — whether that's a breakthrough for malaria, a breakthrough for a high - quality health care system, a breakthrough for the educational opportunities that those poor people are not able to get today.

LINDAU, Germany — Microsoft founder Bill Gates thrilled a crowd of 566 young researchers from 77 countries gathered here June 26 for the opening ceremony of the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates, and he wasted no time in telling them what to do.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. commits the perfect crime, Bill Gates tries to control the weather, and Wilford Brimley has too much free time.

The Good Lie, Philippe Falardeau, USA The Theory of Everything, James Marsh, United Kingdom / USA The Last Five Years, Richard LaGravenese, USA Time Out of Mind, Oren Moverman, USA Top Five, Chris Rock, USA While We're Young, Noah Baumbach, USA Still Alice, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, USA A Second Chance (En chance til), Susanne Bier, Denmark The Reach, Jean - Baptiste Leonetti, USA Phoenix, Christian Petzold, Germany Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy, USA Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, USA My Old Lady, Israel Horovitz, USA Miss Julie, Liv Ullmann, Norway / United Kingdom / Ireland Men, Women and Children, Jason Reitman, USA Mary Kom, Omung Kumar, India Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad, USA Learning to Drive, Isabel Coixet, USA Black and White, Mike Binder, USA The Equalizer, Antoine Fuqua, USA The Judge, David Dobkin, USA A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, United Kingdom The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie), Francois Ozon, France The Riot Club, Lone Scherfig, United Kingdom Samba, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, France This is Where I Leave You, Shawn Levy, USA Pawn Sacrifice, Ed Zwick, USA American Heist, Sarik Andreasyan, USA Before We Go, Chris Evans, USA Breakup Buddies, Ning Hao, China Cake, Daniel Barnz, USA The Dead Lands (Hautoa), Toa Fraser, New Zealand / United Kingdom The Drop, Michael R. Roskam, USA Eden, Mia Hansen - Love, France The Gate, Règis Wargnier, France The Keeping Room, Daniel Barber, USA Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Canada / France / Lebanon / Qatar / USA

DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME Director: Bill Morrison Screenwriter: Bill Morrison Cast: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam...

Contrary to what Bill Gates argued in on the op - ed pages of the New York Times, the release of value - added scores of teachers is not a way of shaming the ineffective teachers.

It was at Lakeside, notes Gladwell on page 51, that «Bill Gates got to do real - time programming as an eighth grader in 1968.

Sam Dillon tackles the question of teacher evaluations in the Times today with a front - page story pegged to Bill Gates» investment of $ 335 million in overhauling teacher evaluation systems.

Behind Grass - Roots School Advocacy, Bill Gates That's the headline over the front - page story in my Early Edition Sunday Times and I was looking forward to some juicy tidbits about the billionaire secretly funding a Bill Ayers power - to - the - people project.

Stories in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and many other newspapers, most written not by education reporters but by Washington - based political and legislative correspondents, reported Gates's assertions in an unquestioning, almost awestruck tone that made one thing clear: if high schools are bad enough for Bill Gates to declare them a disaster, then it must be so.

Bill Gates, the co-founder of the world's largest philanthropy, last week called on President - elect Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress to expand support for education and make the federal government «a dynamic agent of school reform,» even as the nation struggles through grim economic times.