Bill Gates


Business adventures
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Educated
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
How to Lie with Statistics
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
A Gentleman in Moscow
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe Information by James GleickThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFoundation by Isaac Asimov
Bookicious
102 books — 4 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm GladwellFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Bill Gates Booklist
289 books — 207 voters

The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scrutinized by the public or by journalists as part of Big Pharma because it wears the superhero cape of philanthropy. And, armed with its unimpeachable brand as a humanitarian body, the foundation can financially partner with competing developers in ways that Big Pharma probably couldn’t.
Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

Bill Gates wasn't born rich but he wasn't poor either even before he discovered Microsoft, he was just waiting for a connecting flight to the boulevards of greatness. ...more
Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

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