Comments on: How To Become As Rich As Bill Gates http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/how-to-become-as-rich-as-bill-gates/ A premier personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 22:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hb http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/how-to-become-as-rich-as-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-293692 hb Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:07:20 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=793#comment-293692 Lesson #3: Choose your mother well. It was the connections of Mary Maxwell Gates, daughter and granddaughter of bankers, University of Washington Regent, UW Foundation Board member, UW Medical Board member, UW Business School advisor, United Way's first national female chairperson, boardmember of First Instate Bank, Unigard Security Insurance Group, Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone (U.S. WEST) and KIRO, who brought Bill's little project to the attention of IBM. "In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation," her son's company. "Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer." Yeah, you do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, you can't chose your parents. Lesson #3: Choose your mother well. It was the connections of Mary Maxwell Gates, daughter and granddaughter of bankers, University of Washington Regent, UW Foundation Board member, UW Medical Board member, UW Business School advisor, United Way’s first national female chairperson, boardmember of First Instate Bank, Unigard Security Insurance Group, Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone (U.S. WEST) and KIRO, who brought Bill’s little project to the attention of IBM.

“In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation,” her son’s company. “Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.”

Yeah, you do whatever it takes. Unfortunately, you can’t chose your parents.

]]> By: chiny http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/how-to-become-as-rich-as-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-111109 chiny Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:24:33 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=793#comment-111109 i am will to do what ever it takes i am will to do what ever it takes

]]> By: ivi http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/how-to-become-as-rich-as-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 ivi Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:07:07 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=793#comment-1608 Well. I am the kind of a person who dreams a lot. I have had many ideas about softwares that do not exist which I am not able to create now. What is your opinion that I should do to make this software possible? Well. I am the kind of a person who dreams a lot. I have had many ideas about softwares that do not exist which I am not able to create now. What is your opinion that I should do to make this software possible?

]]> By: Bob http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/how-to-become-as-rich-as-bill-gates/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Bob Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:29:41 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=793#comment-1607 "Self-esteem in not Job 1. People like feeling good about themselves, but according to this essay, some of the best leaders are outrightly mean." So basically survival of the fittest, do whatever it takes, including throwing ethics and integrity out the window. At least that what Microsoft did to get to the top. “Self-esteem in not Job 1. People like feeling good about themselves, but according to this essay, some of the best leaders are outrightly mean.”

So basically survival of the fittest, do whatever it takes, including throwing ethics and integrity out the window. At least that what Microsoft did to get to the top.

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