Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth if he had not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity.
Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can claim to have the attributes that he possessed and still possesses.
Determined in Business
Bill Gates is aggressive. He has the power of persuasion. He pursues everything with single-minded determination. When he takes up a task, he does it, finishes it and only then he moves onto something else. It is this attribute that has seen him succeeding in almost everything that he has done in his remarkable life.
Risk Taker
Bill Gates is a risk taker. Today, it may seem that billionaires can always take risks since they have money at their disposal. But he took risks when he merely had a few hundred bucks in his pocket. Bill Gates took some risks while founding Microsoft. One huge risk taken by Gates was that he dropped out of college to help create Microsoft. Gates could have stayed in college to learn more, but instead he took the risk to drop out and live his dream of creating Microsoft. Bill gates also took the risk of starting his business on a vision, the vision of the personal computer being a useful tool on every office desk and in every home. Even when his company was a minnow and IBM was a giant, he took on the latter, dragged them to court and also won a settlement in his favor. That saved him from a huge financial loss even before his Microsoft became a global phenomenon.
When Bill Gates along with his wife Melinda Gates decided to pledge their fortune for the welfare of the poor and he consistently took up various causes such as Polio eradication, education for the