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Bill Gates: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
Bill Gates is the most influential and recognizable name in the technology industry to date. He's a business magnate, avid investor, big philanthropist, and author of multiple books. He has made it into the top 0.1 percent and it would be an understatement to say Bill Gates is a success story. Some of his greatest moments arose on this journey to success and through studying his journey; it can help us better walk our own path. This book will take you through his successes, failures and teachable moments providing the key principles we can incorporate into our own lives for big results.
This book takes a look at his life starting with his early beginnings in Seattle, to becoming the richest man in the world and beyond. We take a look at his first taste of failure with his initial business venture, following on with his major successes and failures along the way. The aim of this book is to be educational and inspirational with actionable principles you can incorporate into your own life straight from the great man himself.
This audiobook includes Gates' 50 greatest quotes, 20 little-known facts about him, and 15 of his principles for success!
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- Mesra350
- 11-02-20
great audiobook
Concise, pack with great lessons from legendary entrepreneur, the content is easy to understand, loved it
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- Hermione
- 01-21-20
Left me wanting more
This was somewhat of a data dump on Bill Gates, summarized by another person. It included some history, famous quotes, and other tales of Gates' successes and failures. It left me wanting to read another version with more direct input from Gates himself.
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- Mariola Javorski
- 08-02-21
To becoming American
I emigrated from Poland in the 80 ties.
This book is giving me chance to continue my education about people who are building this country, who have impact on our life in America and around the world.
thank you...great writing!
Mariola
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-23-19
Short but Impactful
A great synopsis of lessons from Bill Gates. Does not drag but gets right to the point.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-13-20
enlightenment
love it. it really informal about his life and his plans on still living the narrator was really good for this book.
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- John Chavez
- 02-26-21
Well written but short.
Insightful and informative but definitely not a full history. I enjoyed all the history of Microsoft as a business that part was very informative.
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- Dragos Petrescu
- 02-16-22
Very comprehensive style
Easy to listen. I found out cuple of lessons usefull for me, like an antreprenour. Very well structured with a good highlite of the essence comming from Bill life
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- apollonia blumauer
- 08-19-23
Bill Gates is a suitable exemplary for our youth
Young people, and even those of us who are no longer young, love to read about Bill Gates. I think he is an excellent exemplary for young people, but unfortunately the informations about his life are too often interpreted inappropriately. This book even mentions the word lie in relation to his success. If young people imitate such interpretations and not Bill Gates personally, it will not be good for anyone and the book should not have such a serious mistake. It would be better Bill Gates writes an autobiography himself.
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- Kelly Miers
- 05-18-19
Very Interesting & Challenging at the Same Time
This is an amazing Story about a very amazing man that knows how to create the Future.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-05-20
Great Overview
Enjoyed. Very well laid out and organized. Insightful. Also had some good quotes and facts to end the book which was nice.
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