Fifth principle of getting rich fast is to dream big, seize the moment and build a business. Even at a young age Bill was hardworking and determined, he had big dreams such as creating a company and to become rich. Bill had many aspirations for his feature and he would do whatever he could to accomplish them. Bill wanted to build a company ever since he was an eighth grader , he and his computer genius friends called themselves the Lakeside Programmers Group. One of their most important job was to make a schedule for two different schools that were merging, a girls school called St.Nichols and Lakeside, Bill and his friends knew the job was difficult but they were determined to get it done at all cost. As Bill was about to graduate, he and his friend Paul Allen were invited to work on a immense project for a energy drink company. During that time Bill got to meet great professional programmers that in the end helped Bill get better at programming. What Bill and Paul learned in that project became super valuable in the future. Bill finished school great, he got outstanding SAT scores which impressed many schools such as Princeton, Yale and Harvard. Bill finally took Harvard´s invitation and started studying there but then in 1974 Bill and Paul read an article that changed their lives . It was about the Altair 8080, the world's first minicomputer kit. This was the chance for Bill and Paul to start something great, something that would lead the computer world. As soon as they saw the article Bill and Paul told the MITS (owners of the altair) company that they had a software or operating system ready for the Altair when they really had nothing. Bill and Paul had 1 month until the delivery and in the end they did it. After they achieved this goal in only 1 month they now had the confidence to dream big and were determined to create a company named Microsoft.Although Bill and Paul were both co-founders of Microsoft the most logical division of the profit would be 50/50 but Bill wanted more up to 60/40 since he had invested 300$ more in the company than Paul and other reasons. Bill had the ability to understand very well contracts and that permitted him to take the best advantage out of something. When Microsoft made it official to license its software to the MITS company for the Altair they worked the contract specified for MITS to do its best to, in effect, rent versions of microsoft’s work to other computer manufacturers. This meant that MITS had to do its best to license Microsoft’s software to other computer manufactures so that Microsoft could get more clients. But MITS did not seemed to follow to what was in the contract which is why Bill’s dad law firm after Microsoft sued MITS for this issue, plus MITS lost the case only after 2 years. This shows the 6th principle of getting rich fast and that is to make the best out of any contract because it might benefit you in the near future.
QUOTES
“I am going to make a million dollars by the time I am twenty,”
This is what Bill announced one day at school in Lakeside, Seattle. After knowing Bill’s personality through the book, I knew he really meant it. He has always been a big dreamer, he thinked big, imagined big and he would be willing to achieve big. Since Bill was a boy he wanted to create a company and show the world what he could do, and he did anxiously at 19 when he dropped out of college specifically Harvard , to create Microsoft with his friend, Paul Allen. The company’s first profit came from their amazing job by creating a software for the Altair 8080 on just one month.
“a hell of a good programmer” but he was also, “a pain in the ass...He's an obnoxious human being...He'd put people down when it was not necessary.”
This is what the director of the Harvard computer lab said about Bill. He could be brilliant at work but the way he treated people was a mess. Bill didn't really cared about what he said to people and how he said it, he believed there was no one better than him.
CONCLUSION
If Bill wanted something he would get it, and wouldn't stop until he had it. The fact that he would not stop chasing what he wanted or his objective could be one of the factors that made Bill Gates who he is today (the richest man in the world). I do believe that giving up on something you really want isn't the solution after you have been rejected once, you should keep trying until you get it.
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