Bill Gates Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs controlled the Gilded Age creating a growing economy with booming businesses and yet this has not changed over the years. John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie can be compared to those with the names Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Multibillionaires, who know what the consumers desire, is what these men are best at. They knew and now know business well enough to be able to control our country’s’ economy. However, these successful business men do not do it together.

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“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days year fails to make his family rich”(Gladwell 249). In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell shows that many factors come into play when looking at successful people. He shows that a series of luck, work ethic, and persistence can lead to success. When looking at people like Bill Gates and Bill Joy, Gladwell shows how these factors came into play in their early lives and allowed them to build their opportunity to become successful. Gates and Joy worked hard at what they were passionate about and ended up creating two major technological companies.

Carnegie and Warren started early in the world of business; different hustles but the same concept; getting money. Both of the men had someone they were compared to in their centuries; Rockefeller being Carnegie’s comparative and Bill Gates being

He could have easily just said I am tired of having to get up at night or I do not feel like working on a program for someone else, but he did not. He keep looking for other computer labs and other things to work on. He had to put in lots of hours, and he did not do it for the money because back then the only payment he would get is some free computer time. His passion is what made him successful. His no quit attitude and dream to make his own computers are why Bill Gates is a

Bill Gates had access to so many different computers in a time when having access to just one was an anomaly, the opportunities he had were extremely rare but occurred because of when and where he was

Andrew Carnegie was a self made millionaire who had philanthropist ideals which were visible through the millions of dollars donated to public services such as education and libraries. This would categorize him as a Captain of Industry for his contribution to the people. Bill Gates should also be identified as a member of this classification for his endless charity. Although he is an extremely wealthy man, he has funded many organizations that are of benefit to the general public and those in desperate need. Raised from humble roots, Andrew Carnegie came from a poor home in Dunfermline, Scotland.

“If you fall behind, run faster, never give up, never surrender and fight until the end”- Jesse Jackson. This concept of staying strong even when something hard and never let someone else get into your head has a direct relationship with Steve Jobs like no other. Steve Jobs shared how his biggest downfalls lead to his greatest peaks during his “Stanford 2005 Commencement Address.” Some may say that Jobs’ successes define him, however it was his challenges that defined him because it erected his love for calligraphy and technology, it fostered his creativity, and taught him to appreciate each day like it was his last. Steve Jobs went to Reed College and dropped out during the first six months because, he thought that college was too expensive and he did not like the classes he was talking at the time.

Bill Gates was a wealthy man who might have been greedy and only in for the money. He was also a generous man who employed a lot of people and donated $40 million. Most revered critics believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt was a Robber Baron. For example, he was never known to engage in philanthropic activities

There are some people that with their monstrous abilities make giant progress and achieve success, getting on the top. This phenomenon is called Underdog and we can say that takes place now days but are very rare people who build their empires and didn’t ever lose them, but such examples are extremely very rare. This happens in fairytales and movies but there are also those who are intoxicated with ambition and commitment and raise in reality their personal kingdoms. Here we can mention the founders of the biggest multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products which includes online advertising technologies , search , cloud computing and software(Google) : Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D students at Stanford University. For this company they are working 57.148 employees and total equity in 2014 goes to 104.5 billion dollars.

My famous entrepreneur is Russell Simmons. Simmons grew up in a middle class home in Queens, New York. His birthday is October 4th, 1957. He went to the City College of New York. Russell Simmons is known for very many things such as RushCard, Phat Farm, Argyleculture, American Classics, etc.

He has contributed to Microsoft and made many changes in which he was able to transform the computing industry. Moreover, he has dependably had more technical competence than interpersonal

The success of Bill Gates depends not only on his effort, but also

III. Preview of Main Points: A. First I will discuss Bill Gates’ childhood and education. B.

How to Achieve Success The term of success appears frequently in public notice and it spurs extensive interests in public. Everybody wants to achieve success, but the fact is that not everyone can make it even though he or she has tried his or her best. Then it comes to a question - how to make it? Does it depend on opportunity or any other features?