Name: Bill Gates

Born : 28/10/1955,Seattle,
Washington, US

Alma mater :
Harvard University (Drop out in 1975,honorary degree in 2007)

No.1 on “Forbes 400” list from 1973 to 2007

Author Of The Books : The Road ahead (1995)

Business @ The Speed Of Thought (1999)

Occupation: chairman of Microsoft Co-chair of Bill and Melinda

Gates Foundation.

Net worth: US $ 50 billion (2009)

Spouse: Melinda Gates (1994- present)

Children: Jennifer Katharine Gates

Rory John Gates
Phoebe Adele Gates.

Bill Gates Success Qualities

1. Workaholic :-
Bill Gates use to work very hard since his
childhood. Bill Gates along with his friends use to work all night
besides the computer. Bill Gates , during his stay at Harvard
sometimes used to sleep on the tables of the computer lab. Bill Gates
was never absent from office during the early years of Microsoft. For
years he slept for only six hours a day. Bill Gates even married in his
30s. Bill Gates is always conscious of his time. Having more time to
work has been Bill Gates's wish for many years.Bill Gates success
can be attributed most to this quality.

Bill Gates believes in the words of Thomas Edison - " Genius is one
percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

2. Ambitious :-
Bill was ambitious since his childhood. Gates always
said that he could perform any task on which he applied his mind. At
the age of fourteen Bill was confident that he could be a millionaire by
the age of thirty. Gates still wants to achieve leadership in every thing
he performs. Being ambitious is one of the greatest of Bill Gates
Qualities

3. Entrepreneurship Skills :-
Bill had all the qualities of great
entrepreneurs. He wanted to change the world. Bill was and still is
financially very conservative. Bill had confidence in what he was
doing. Gates is a perfect workaholic as mentioned above. He has a
good brain for figures. He even has a good memory and aptitude for
the learning. Bill Gates always learns from his past mistakes. He
possesses a highly creative mind. He also devotes full concentration
to his work.

4. Self Confidence :-
Bill always believed in himself and wasn't afraid
of any body. Bill continually pursued his interest in computers despite
the suggestions by the people to concentrate on his study. Gates was
always confident of achieving success one day. Bill Gates took on
IBM at a stage when it was hundreds of times bigger than Microsoft.
Bill Gates still has confidence of coming unscathed from the recent
Anti-trust case.

5. Technologist :-
Bill possessed a highly creative mind since his
childhood. At the age of fourteen he learned BASIC. Bill has
successfully learned the art of blending technology with the needs of
the people. He is currently concentrating on this art in his present job
as the Chief Software Architect and the Chairman of the Microsoft
Corporation.

6. Good Manager :-
Bill has made it a point to constantly re-
innovate the company on the basis of changing markets and superior
management techniques . Microsoft has constantly been rated as one
of the most admired companies. The concept of stock options owes a
part of its popularity to their successful implementation at Microsoft.
His company has enjoyed the current stock market boom thanks
partly to his good management.

7. Excellent Sales Man :-

Bill is a master at making deals. He
possesses superior bargaining skills. His life has been full of
successful deals. He converted DOS into a hot selling product
although Microsoft had bought it for just a few thousand dollars.
Microsoft list of successful products is nearly endless, this fact partly
owes itself to him.

8. Successfully predicting future trends :-

Bill successfully predicted
future trends and positioned the products of the company in such a
manner that they became instant hits. Although he has his fare share
of failures but even when he fails in his predictions he doesn't give
up.
Honors and awards

1) Worlds Richest Person (1996-2007) (2009)

2) Time Person of the year in 2005.

2-03-2005 Bill Gates knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his

contribution to the British economy. His titel will be 'Knight
Commander of the Order of the British Empire'. Thoug he is not
allowed to call himself 'Sir' because of his USA citizenship but may
suffix his name with KBE.

Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, has chosen Interactive Saudi

Arabia Ltd., an Economic Offset Program Company, as the fastest
growing partner for the year 2006. Mr. Gates handed over the
Certificate of Excellence to Mr. Basel Al Jabr, Interactive’s President,
during the first annual Global Conference on Competitiveness held in
Riyadh recently.

Bill Gates receives Innovator of the Year Award 2006: Microsoft

Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates shares his
perspectives on technology and the industry's future in the
March/April edition of CE Vision magazine, the flagship publication of
the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). After granting the
exclusive interview with CE Vision, Gates was on hand to accept the
Innovator of the Year Award at CEA's Second Annual Digital Patriots
Dinner held in Washington, D.C. on March 15. The award was given
in recognition of Gates' success in revolutionizing the way personal
computers and Microsoft software now fit in to everyday life. In his
exclusive interview with CE Vision, Gates shares his views on the
digital lifestyle.

UK's Cambridge awards Bill Gates honorary degree

Billionaire Bill Gates has picked up an honorary degree from Britain's

Cambridge University.
LONDON —
Billionaire Bill Gates has picked up an honorary degree from Britain's
Cambridge University.
The university bestowed degrees on both the Microsoft founder and
his wife, Melinda, on Friday.
Both head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donates
money to global health and development initiatives as well as
education programs in the United States.
Cambridge made Gates a doctor of law, the same degree given to his
wife. They previously helped set up a fund to help pay for overseas
graduate students to attend the university.

ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Inspiring the era of the home computer

During the late 1960s, Bill Gates and his school friend Paul Allen
learnt the BASIC programming language whilst studying at Lakeside
School in Seattle.

BASIC's popularity stemmed from the fact that it was simple to use
for beginners, but had functionality that could be stretched by
advanced coders.

While BASIC was designed in 1963, it wasn't until Gates and Allen
produced a version for the Altair 8800 that it really started to fly. In
1975, the two sold the code to MITS for $3,000.

BASIC sparked the home computing boom of the 1980s, appearing

on the IBM PC, Commodore VIC-20, BBC Micro and the Apple II (to
name but a few).

2. Commercialising the operating system

Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1976. In 1980, the company

inked a landmark deal with IBM to produce an operating system for
its up-and-coming personal computer (PC). Microsoft bought 86-DOS
from Seattle Computer Products, a Disk Operating System designed
for 8086-based computers.

It used the 86-DOS code as the basis for IBM's first PC OS, which
became known as PC-DOS. When clones of IBM's PC started to
appear, Microsoft pushed their own version of PC-DOS, MS-DOS, to
system builders.
3. Launching Windows 95

When you look back at the career of Bill Gates, it's easy to focus on
Microsoft's biggest product – Windows. You can now find versions of
Windows on around 90 per cent of the world's computers.

It powers business servers, mobile phones, PDAs, cash machines,

retail displays, set-top boxes and old Sega Dreamcast consoles.
Windows is everywhere. Windows 95 was arguably the game-
changer.

The original Windows 1.0 OS was a effectively a graphical version of

MS-DOS, born to compete against the GUI on Apple's 'Lisa'. In
comparison, Windows 95 was designed to replace MS-DOS and
enabled revolutionary features such as multi-tasking and Plug and
Play.

4. Becoming the richest man in the world

Bill Gates became the richest man on the planet at the age of 39. He
stayed at number one on the Forbes list of the World's Richest
People until 2007.

According to Wikipedia, Bill Gates was worth more than $101 billion
in 1999; while Wired reports that, when Microsoft stock hit a high in
1996, Gates was earning $30 million a day.

He's now third on the Forbes list (behind his friend Warren Buffet and
Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helu) with an estimated fortune
of $58 billion.

5. Giving his money away

As Bill Gates clocks out of his day job at Microsoft, the world will
arguably be a better place for it. Inspired by the work of John D
Rockefeller, Gates and his wife Melinda head up the charitable
behemoth that is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2006, Warren Buffet gifted $31 billion to the Foundation, which

already had over $30 billion of Gates' own money in its coffers. In
2007 alone, the Foundation spent over $2 billion on global education
and health initiatives.