Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the Worlds Greatest Entrepreneur

The world listens when Bill Gates speaks "I′m not competent to judge his technical ability, but I regard his business savvy as extraordinary. If Bill had started a hot dog stand, he would have become the hot dog king of the world."–Warren Buffett "It is still possible to be a Vanderbilt, an Astor, a Rockefeller. You can still do that, you can be Bill Gates."–David Geffen "Love him or hate him, but you can′t ignore him."–Fortune Here is just a sample of what you′ll find inside: "My parents weren′t all that excited about their son announcing he was dropping out of a fine university to start a business in something almost nobody had heard of called ′microcomputers.′" "Our slogan from the very beginning was ′a computer on every desk and in every home.′" (This book has not been prepared, approved, licensed, or endorsed by Bill Gates.)

Preface. Growing Up Gates. Heading Off on the Conventional Road. Back on the High–Tech Highway. The Gatesian Management Style. The Microsoft Business Model. The Computer Wars. Microsoft Mistakes. Attack the Future. Others Say. Living at the Pinnacle. Little Time for Love. The New Computer Culture. Gates on Life. The Bottom Line. The Bill Gates Time Line. Endnotes.

Janet Lowe is the author of the bestselling Warren Buffett Speaks, Jack Welch Speaks, Benjamin Graham on Value Investing, Oprah Winfrey Speaks, and many others (all available from Wiley). Her articles have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Ms. Lowe lives in Del Mar, California, with her husband, Austin Lynas.