Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world. For many years, he was the richest and even today he can surpass Warrant Buffet or Carlos Slim Helu in any given financial year. Bill Gates would have still been the richest man on earth had he not been as philanthropic as he has been in the last two decades. He has even got Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to pledge half their fortunes for charity.
Bill Gates is a legend in his own right. Very few people have shaped up the latter half of the 20th century as he had done. Not everyone can aspire to be a Bill Gates and not many can claim to have the attributes that he possessed and still possesses.
Here are some Bill Gates personality traits to help you understand the man, slightly better than you know already.
Risk Taker
Bill Gates is a risk taker. Today, it may seem that billionaires can always take risks since they have money at their disposal. But he took risks when he merely had a few hundred bucks in his pocket. Even when his company was a minnow and IBM was a giant, he took on the latter, dragged them to court and also won a settlement in his favor. That saved him from a huge financial loss even before his Microsoft became a global phenomenon. When Bill Gates along with his wife Melinda Gates decided to pledge their fortune for the welfare of the poor and he consistently took up various causes such as Polio eradication, education for the poor and basic infrastructure for the absolutely impoverished; all of those were risks. He did not know if he would succeed in any of those endeavors but today he has done a perfect job in all those missions, many of which have been accomplished.
Learn From Failure
What makes Bill Gates who he has become is his ability to learn from failure. He celebrates success but not as much he introspects on the lessons from failure. It is this that has shaped up his life, from school to his present day mindset.
Determined in Business
Bill Gates is aggressive. He has the power of persuasion. He pursues everything with single-minded determination. When he takes up a task, he does it, finishes it and only then he moves onto something else. It is this attribute that has seen him succeeding in almost everything that he has done in his remarkable life.