Gates was born in 1955, and he grew up in Seattle with two sisters. Their father, william gates, is a lawyer in Seattle. Their late mother, mary gates, was a middle school teacher, a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Washington, and the chairman of the United International Road Organization.
Bill was full of energy since he was a child. As early as infancy, he was able to shake the cradle by himself. He likes thinking very much since he was a child, and he can devote himself to something as soon as he is fascinated. From grandmother's persuasive enlightenment education to parents' painstaking efforts to find clubs and schools suitable for Bill Gates' talent development, all these provide fertile soil and fresh air for his talent development.
When Gates was three or four years old, his mother always took Gates when she went out. When Gates explains the history of Seattle and museums to students at school, he always sits in the front of the classroom. Although Gates is an active child, he is more attentive and earnest than other students in the classroom. Gates likes reading since he was a child. Child as he is, he likes reading adult books. In his own home, he can browse his parents' books at will. Gates, a 7-year-old boy with sandy hair, likes to read the world encyclopedia repeatedly. He often reads word by word for hours, which is almost his weight 1/3. He is often lost in thought, and he seems to feel strongly that what a magical and magical world is hidden in small words and huge books! The symbols of words can record and spread countless interesting things of predecessors and people all over the world. He thought, the history of mankind will get longer and longer ... then the encyclopedia will be bigger and heavier! Is there any good way to make a magic box? As long as it is as big as a small cigarette case, it is convenient to put a big encyclopedia on everything. This wonderful spark of thought was later realized for him, and it was smaller than a cigarette box, just a small chip.
Gates is reading more and more books and thinking more and more questions. Once he suddenly said to Carl Ed, a fourth-grade classmate, "It is better to be an oak tree standing on a bare hill than to be a grass in the lawn." Because the grass is the same and has no personality, while the oak tree is tall and straight, with its head held high. "He keeps a diary and writes down his thoughts at any time. When he was young, he was often as thoughtful as an adult. He wrote in another diary: "Perhaps, human life is a burning" fire ",and all one can do is try his best to save something from this" fire ". "This kind of consciousness of" chasing after life "is rare among children of the same age.
Gates' grandmother especially likes to play games with clever little Gates, especially games involving some intelligence. She taught Bill to play checkers, chips and bridge. When playing games, grandma always likes to say to little Bill, "Think about it! Think about it! " She often applauds Bill for his next good move and playing a good hand. Grandma often let Bill Gates read books and tell him stories, from which Bill Gates benefited a lot. My grandmother realized Bill Gates' potential in thinking and memory, and she always seized the opportunity to activate Bill's potential in this respect. Sometimes my grandparents and grandchildren go for a walk in the park, and my grandmother often exchanges chess skills with Bill Gates or reads famous works, so that Bill can look for newer methods or express more original and incisive opinions.
Gates Jr.' s parents encouraged him and provided him with opportunities as much as possible. When he grew up, his parents encouraged him to take part in the scout camping activities. One summer, the scout walked 80 kilometers a week, wearing a pair of brand-new high boots. Obviously, the new shoes don't suit him very well. Walking on foot every day 13 kilometers, climbing mountains and mountains, makes him miserable. The first night, his heel was skinned and there were many blisters on his toes. He gritted his teeth and walked on. The next night, his feet were red and swollen, and his cracked skin was bleeding. His companions advised him to stop, but he shook his head, just asked the team doctor for some cotton wool and gauze to wrap it up, and asked for some painkillers to eat, and continued on his way. In this way, he insisted on checking at a station on the way. When the team leader found that his foot was very inflamed and asked for treatment, he stopped marching. Gates' mother came from Seattle. When she saw his feet festering, she cried sadly, complaining why her son didn't stop the parade earlier. Gates said flatly, "It's a pity that I didn't reach my destination this time."
No matter what Gates does, he will devote all his time to the best completion. Once the teacher assigned his classmates to write a story of no more than 20 pages. Gates tried to draw inferences from others and wrote a magical and tortuous story of 100 pages, which surprised both the teacher and the classmates! Everyone said that he: "Gates always likes to climb to the top no matter what he does. If he doesn't make a sound, he will make a blockbuster, otherwise he won't be content."
With the growth of age, the environment in the family can no longer meet the further development of Bill Gates' talent. Little Bill sometimes blames his mother for her lack of wisdom! Therefore, parents turned their eyes to the society and actively searched for Bill's own space. In an activity, Bill Gates prepared a report for his class called Investing in Gates Limited ... This report almost became a family matter. His grandmother helped make the cover, and even his father helped. The atmosphere is very lively.
After graduating from elementary school, his parents sent Bill Gates to Lakeside Middle School after asking for his advice. When studying in Hubin Middle School, he often arranged his studies according to his hobbies. Bill Gates studies hard in his favorite courses, studies very well, and is obsessed with computers that will allow him to devote his life to the future.
After graduating from high school, Bill Gates really wants to go to Harvard University, which is his parents' greatest wish. Fortunately, Bill Gates' parents don't regard their children as their private property like other parents, so they must let them do what their parents like. After calm thinking, the parents gave up the idea of making their son a lawyer and let Bill Gates develop freely in the university field. This is a great help to Bill Gates.
But a year later, Bill Gates' parents faced a bigger problem: Bill Gates was leaving Harvard, giving up his splendid studies and starting a computer company with others! Bill talked with his parents many times and expressed his thoughts calmly. What can parents who know their son's nature and ambition say? Perhaps the son's talent and computer career are the most suitable! Bill Gates resolutely left Harvard University, which made hundreds of millions of students yearn for, and began to make great efforts in the field of software. 1975 Bill officially founded Microsoft, and after more than 20 years, he became the world's top richest man, with personal assets of nearly $20 billion!
Bill Gates' success is the result of the combination of personal talent and family education. Bill's story tells us:
First, we should constantly activate children's talents and pay attention to the cultivation and protection of children's talents.
Secondly, it is very important to cultivate children's concentration.
His father William is a company lawyer and his mother Mary is a school teacher.
When Kloc-0/7 years old, Gates sold his first computer programming work-a timetable system. The buyer is his high school and the price is $4,200.
● Gates scored 1590 in the standardized SAT (American College Entrance Examination), out of 1600.
Gates told his university teacher that he became a millionaire at the age of 30, and by 3 1, he had become a billionaire. In other words, Gates knew that he would be rich in the future, but he didn't expect to be so rich.
While at Harvard, Gates helped write Altair BASIC, which became the first product of Microsoft (then called Microsoft).
On Forbes list [2], Gates was the richest man in the world from 200 1 to 2007! Ranked third in the world in 2008, and became the richest man in the world again in 2009! 20 10 fell to the second place in the world with a slight disadvantage. 20 1 1 In September, Bill Gates topped the Forbes 20 1 1 annual list of America's 400 richest people with a net worth of $59 billion, which is also the eighth consecutive year. [3]
He is a genius. He/Kloc-started programming at the age of 0/3 and predicted that he would become a millionaire at the age of 25. He is a business wizard, whose unique vision always allows him to accurately see the future of the IT industry, and his unique management method keeps the growing Microsoft alive. His wealth is even more a myth. At the age of 39, he became the richest man in the world and topped Forbes for 13 years in a row. This myth, like dazzling fireworks in the night sky, stung the eyes of hundreds of millions of people. He is the chairman and chief software designer of Microsoft. Microsoft is a global leader in providing software, services and Internet technology for personal computers and business computers. By the end of fiscal year 2008, Microsoft's revenue was nearly $62 billion, and the total number of employees in 78 countries and regions exceeded 965,438+0,000.
20 1 1 American Rich List
2065438+01On September 22nd, the website of Forbes magazine published "201kloc-0/America's 400 Rich List", and Bill Gates' wealth reached 59 billion dollars, ranking the richest. Facebook CEO Mark zuckerberg ranked 14, and his wealth1750 million dollars, an increase of1600 million dollars over last year. Zuckerberg is the richest man in the top 20.
Gates' wealth increased by $5 billion compared with last year, more than six times that of Liang Wengen, chairman of Sany Group, the richest man in Chinese mainland ($9.3 billion) and Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, the second richest man ($9.2 billion). [3]
Top 20 richest Americans:
Rank Name Personal Net Assets (USD 100 million)
1 Bill Gates/Bill Gates 590
2 Warren Buffett/Warren Buffett 390
3 Larry Ellision/Larry Ellision 330
4 Charles Koch/Charles Koch 250
5 david koch/david koch 250
Christy Walton and his family/Christy Walton &; Family 245
7 george soros/george soros
8 Sheldon Edersen//Sheldon Edersen 2 15
Jim walton/jim walton
Alice Wharton/alice walton 209
Robson Walton/Robson Walton 205
Michael bloomberg//Michael Bloomberg
13 Jeff Bezos//Jeff Bezos 19 1+0
Mark zuckerberg//mark zuckerberg
Sergey brin//sergey brin
Larry Page//Larry Page
17 John Paulson//John Paulson 155
Michael Dell//Michael Dell 150
Steve ballmer//steve ballmer
20 Small Forest Mars/Forrest Mars Jr 138 [4]
He met his future wife Melinda French at the launch ceremony held by Microsoft in Manhattan in 1987, when Melinda was an employee of Microsoft. They got married on New Year's Day on 1994.
Life photos of Gates (13 photos)
When Gates is thinking or absorbed, he will swing back and forth in his chair. This quirk can be traced back to his childhood, and he liked to swing on the wooden horse for hours. Later, Microsoft employees got used to seeing him shake his head while thinking, listening and attending meetings. ...
● In 2005, Gates was awarded the Commander Medal of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
● In March 2007, Forbes magazine once again selected Bill Gates as the richest man in the world, which was the first consecutive year 13. At present, his worth is $58 billion.
On June 5438+05, 2006, Bill Gates attended the press conference at the headquarters of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, USA. On the same day, Bill Gates announced that he would retire from the daily affairs of Microsoft in the next two years and focus on health and education charity.
At present, Carnegie Mellon University (a university in Pennsylvania, USA) has a building named after Gates-Gates Computer Science Building.
Photos of Gates attending business activities (20 photos)
● Gates is the latest owner of leonardo da vinci's 72-page manuscript The Leicester Code. This manuscript contains observations on the nature of water, astronomy, rocks and fossils. Gates publicly exhibits manuscripts in different cities around the world once a year.
● Bill Gates earns $67.5 per second, $5.832 million per day and $265.438+300 million a year.
go to school
Gates attended a private public elementary school in Seattle. He discovered his interest in software and studied hard there. /kloc-started computer programming at the age of 0/3, which lasted 15 years. When he graduated from high school, he won the highest honor of American high school graduates, "American Excellent Student Scholarship".
From 65438 to 0973, Gates was admitted to Harvard University. Now steve ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and I have become good friends. At Harvard, Gates developed a BASIC programming language for the first microcomputer, MITS Altair.
Gates is also interested in biotechnology. He is a member of the board of directors of ICOS, a company specializing in protein matrix and small molecule therapy. He is also an investor in many other biotechnology companies.
honour
CEO magazine 1994 CEO of the year.
Sports News 1997 100 The most powerful person in sports.
Time magazine ranks first among the 50 network elites with 1998.
It was rated as one of the most powerful figures in 1999 by the British Sunday Times, and ranked second among the 100 elites in Upside.
By the British "Guardian" as the most influential 100 people in the press in 2006.
In 2004, he was knighted by the Queen of England.
In 2005, together with his wife Melinda and Bono, the lead singer of rock band U2, he was elected as the man of the year to show their contribution to charity.
On June 5438+065438+1October 65438+May 2006, he won the 2006 James Morgan International Philanthropist Award.
In 2006, the Financial Times ranked first in the second rich list.
On June 7, 2007, that is, 30 years after I left Harvard, I accepted the honorary bachelor of law degree awarded by Harvard University and was awarded the honorary doctor of law degree [1].
On April 9, 2007, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of Tsinghua University, becoming the first 13 honorary doctorate in Tsinghua University. On April 20th, 2007, Bill Gates was awarded honorary director of Peking University and honorary academician of Guanghua School of Management.
Entomologists also named a flower insect, Aphis Gates, after him.
There is a street named after him in Seattle.