Bill Gates Net Worth 2021

Early Life

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington. Gates joined forces with Paul Allen and joined Honeywell during the summer of 1974. In 1975, the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU was released, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company. Gates withdrew from Harvard that same year. His parents supported him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company. He explained his decision to leave Harvard, “If things don’t go, I can always go back to school. I was officially on vacation.”

Bill Gates’s net worth in 2021 is $142.1 Billion.

Few Facts About Bill Gates

• Once his school realized Gates’ proclivities for coding, they let him write the school’s computer program for scheduling students in classes
• He dropout from Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft
• Gates says if Microsoft hadn’t worked out, he probably would’ve been a researcher for artificial intelligence
• Once was arrested in New Mexico, in 1977 for driving without a license and ran a red light
• Despite his immense wealth, Gates says his kids will only inherit $10 million each
• Gates doesn’t know any foreign languages
• He used to memorize the license plates of his employees at Microsoft

Top Bill Gates Quotes

1. “Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
2. “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
3. “Life is not fair – get used to it!”
4. “If you were born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”
5. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
6. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
7. “If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”
8. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
9. “I am results-oriented.”
10. “When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.”