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Bill Gates was born in the town of Idaho in the United States. He is know as a Gold prospecting.

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  • Born in: Idaho, United States
  • Gender: Male
  • Profession: Gold prospecting

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if you were to ask a question to bill gates what would you ask him? thanx

Answer:Mr RodneyC, I think Bill Gates success may be more about Bill being first in God's life. For one thing Bill is a lot better person, using his gifts only for good by contrast to God's amazing cruelty, and for anorthere thing, if God doesn't have Windows he simply isn't going to be able to keep up with the World today. I would ask Bill Gates, at what point did he realise that being one of the richest men in the world was likely to happen.

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is it true that Bill gates will distribute 90% of his money or fortune to poor people, I mean give them as fund?

Answer:The foundation has a $29 billion endowment and gives more than a billion dollars (at least 5% of its assets must be used each year) a year to "improve access to advances in global health and learning." Planning on leaving his children $10 million each, "Gates has always said that, like Carnegie, he will give away most of his fortune before he dies. He plans to make sure his children are well taken care of but doesn’t want to leave them the burden of tremendous wealth."

Would You Give To The Bill Gates Foundation, He Is Successful At Making Money And Giving It Away?

Since Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and he has now retired as the President and CEO of Microsoft and is devoting his time to giving his money away, wouldn't it make sense to give money to the a successful man's foundation, who is not trying to make anymore money. He says "I virtually have an infinitee amount of money for my needs". Anorthere one of the world's richest men, Warren Buffet is turning toward charity at this point in his life too and he is entrusting his money to Bill Gates, because Bill Gates doesn't need it for himself and is "giving it all away".

Answer:It depends. I'm not sure exactly what the Bill Gates Foundation does, do they give away money to those in need or do they help stop the problem at the root, the problem that created the need. I would donate to a foundation that gives both. A foundation that helps those currently in need and also has a good plan to fix the problems at the source. How much money the founders have is not relevant to me.

What About Bill Gates During The Economic Problem Of US?

Do you think Bill Gates worries or will worry about our economic crisis? Assuming he makes the right decisions with his money, will his company suffer? How's his company doing right now anyway?

Answer:Bill Gates has a lot of money, as we all know for a long time the most money of any person in the world. He is not president of his company anymore, and hasn't been for a while, but his money is safely secured away in his vaults, even if he loses a billion or 10, he still has a lot to fall back on, as for microsoft, times are hard and its not just the every day citizen, but for corporations as well. I assume if they can come out without losing too much money in these next few years of hardship, they will consider themselves fortunate.

What Did Bill Gates Have To Do With Creating Email?

I am doing this report and Bill Gates and I need to know the details about what kind of email Bill Gates created. How did it work and what did he do? What did it do? I've heard that someone created it before him, so did he improve it? Thanks so much.

Answer:He had northing to do with the origins of E-mail. Microsoft (i'm not singling out Bill Gates here) redefined E-mail with the use of Outlook. By redefined I don't mean they did anything revolutionaryy with E-mail but deviated from the traditional use of E-mail violating the many standards put in place.

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A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Showing Up for Life translates one man’s experiences over four score years of living into an inspiring road map for readers everywhere.

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I’m 83 years old. Representing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and everyone who is a part of it has given me the opportunity to see more of the world and its rich possibilities than most people ever do. I never imagined that I’d be working this late in life, or enjoying it so much.

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Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist.

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This controversial new idea is discussed and debated by the more than forty contributors to this book, among them three Nobel laureates and two former U.S. cabinet secretaries. Edited by author and columnist Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism started as a first-of-its-kind online conversation that brought together some of the world's best minds to engage Gates's challenge. From Warren Buffett, who seconds Gates's analysis, to Lawrence Summers, who worries about the consequences of multiple corporate objectives, the essays cover a broad spectrum of opinion. Judge Richard Posner dismisses Gates's proposal as trumped-up charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders whether altruistic companies can survive in a competitive economy, while Columbia Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps argues that a little altruism might be the right prescription for a variety of market imperfections.

Creative Capitalism is not just a book for philanthropists. It's a book that challenges the conventional wisdom about our economic system, a road map for the new global economy that is emerging as capitalism adapts itself once again to a changing world.

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