Bill Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft.

To say it this way - Gates is surely one of the most amazing people in the World - starting a company with the clear ambition to become a major software vendor before graduating from Harvard, having remarkable intellectual results on all of his exams and yet knowing his place is in the real business, making his historical impact on IT Industry as a member of Executive Boards of Microsoft and yet writing programming code by the middle of his 30s, famous with his business strategies and management methods, being the richest person in the World after starting from zero and making all that by his own! Now a Chairman of Microsoft and a Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Truly amazing achievements.. And yet what makes them worthy and meaningful is the other side of Bill Gates - not the businessman Gates, but the philanthropist Gates, a person who is caring and doing about some of the greatest human issues, that most of us are even hardly aware of with the help of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:

The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.

I think after that short and intense expose it's good that I give you what motivated me to make this topic - this is Bill Gates speech on his graduation in Harvard 30 years after he quit studentship to start Microsoft.

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I hope you appreciate Bill's deep and promising ideas for the future..

Of course Bill Gates has friends, and here is a very good analogical speech of one of his best and most famous friends, Warren Buffett:

As Wikipedia says:

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is a U.S. investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the largest shareholder and C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of approximately $62 billion.

Warren Buffett gave a talk to MBA students at The University of Florida in 1998. This article is the first of a 5 part series on the videos:

Warren Buffett MBA Talk at University of Florida

Further reading:

http://www.thegatesnotes.com