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I like to think that this book is a correct analysis of why Bill Gates has been so successful for so many years. But in the end, whether you see him as an Antichrist or a Messiah, you can't deny that he is a remarkable individual. For over two decades he dominated the computer industry.

Below are just some of his own (in his own words…) rules for success:

1. Life is unfair, get used to it.

2. The world does not care about your self-confidence. The world expects you to accomplish something before you can sit back and feel great.

3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year after high school. You will not be CEO with a nice car until you earn it.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you meet your boss.

5. To work as a cleaner is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a name for it - they called it opportunity.

6. If you mess up, do not blame yourself, but learn from your mistakes.

7. Before you were born, your parents were not as uncool as you think they are today. They became like that after paying your bills and laundering your clothes.

8. Your school may not believe in winners and losers, they might give new chances all the time. This is unlike anything else in real life.

9. Life is not divided into semesters. You will not have summer vacation and very few employers are interested in helping their employees find themselves.

10. TV is not real-life. In real life people actually have to leave the cafe and go to work.

By A Y, 125 pages, save $3.75, published June 21, 2014

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  Gnostikos on 24/06/2014 - 20:54

  -4

  The geeky-Harvard-dropout-turned-self-made-billionaire days are long gone and wouldn't have a hope in hell of succeeding in today's multi-nationalised, monopolised IT industry.

  More to the point, since old Billy left Microsoft, he's become less the Pope of Computatrix Wizardy and a humble dweeb aspiring-neckbeards can emulate, and more of a misanthropic scumbag in a hollowed-out volcano who hates humanity at large and gives speeches on death panels, population control, covert sterilisation technology and pushing a multi-billion dollar vaccination-frenzy onto the entire world. A position he's embraced despite knowing sweet-F-all about vaccines, population growth or diseases; solely due to the merit of his wealth and extensive philanthropic network (read: Tax Shelter).

  And let's not forget Microsoft's horrible track record of anti-competitive behaviour, their "embrace, extend, extinguish"/FUD business models or the Halloween documents.

  The saga of Bill Gates and Microsoft will either be a set of principles for cutthroat hyper-capitalists to live their lives by or a warning from history, depending on who you are.

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    blahman on 24/06/2014 - 22:06

    Not sure if serious.

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      Gnostikos on 24/06/2014 - 22:25

      Truth is often stranger than fiction.

      A cashed-up computer programmer is now attempting to lecture the world on how many kids they should be having and why population growth needs to be obsessively managed by Federal entities, while throwing his vast private fortune at "philanthropic" endeavors that he himself says have an added benefit of "controlling population". Him and his wife's foundation also have a vested interest in changing US school curricula to feature more pro-childless families, pro-climate change, pro-misanthropy, pro-statism and pro-pharmaceutical industry education (the "Common Core" National Curriculum).

      The measure of a man is not only his dollars and cents but also his moral fibre, and Bill's last morsel of it evidently left his mind a long time ago.

      The guy's a flippant degenerate, arch-oligarch who feels he can dictate monumental societal changes after accumulating enough greenbacks and buying up enough companies.

      Analysing that paradigm long enough should lead a sane individual back to the origins of the French Revolution; the rich do as they can, the poor do what they're told.

      If you feel this is a person worthy of admiration in your view; that's your business, I'm just highlighting both sides of the coin.

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        muncan on 24/06/2014 - 22:37

        +12

        Truth is often stranger than fiction.

        Amar is jelly

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        ejsteven on 24/06/2014 - 23:30

        +1

        You can't really blame him though can you. If I had several billion dollars to spare, I'd also be trying to change the world. History remembers those who do, not those who just sit on their piles of gold, only thinking of ways to make more.

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        Justtip on 25/06/2014 - 09:54

        +4

        I find your misinformed lecturing, masqueraded as the "other side of the coin" pretty hippy-critical.

        Are you anti-vaccines and a climate change denier?

        How many lives have you saved by donating billions of dollars to save children from preventable diseases?
        Your comments, particularly the satanism remark, are quite frankly ridiculous..

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        some mad kid on 25/06/2014 - 10:41

        -1

        "Hey jelly school I have a student here who I think needs to take attendance at your school"
        "….. I know there's no such thing as jelly school"
        "Mmkay well anyways you gotta stop being jelly"

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        Gnostikos on 25/06/2014 - 19:34

        I find your misinformed lecturing, masqueraded as the "other side of the coin" pretty hippy-critical.

        Are you anti-vaccines and a climate change denier?

        You are aware that the entire Climate Change theory was invented by so-called "hippies"/leftists/liberals/whatever cute loaded buzzword you prefer, so by virtue of me being skeptical of that notion, that precludes me from being a left-leaning hippy.

        Climate change skeptics tend to be more conservative-leaning; though I myself stay clear of the fake Left-Right paradigm because I have a functioning prefrontal cortex with a very acute bullsh*t spectrometer.

        I know you types love to throw around loaded jargon/buzzwords to add weight to your corny insults, but you really need to clue yourself in a little bit before you just reach for your copy of "Mainstream Media Labels for Character Assassination 101" and spit out your self-righteous newspeak of the day.

        How many lives have you saved by donating billions of dollars to save children from
        preventable diseases?

        I'm playing a song for you on the world's smallest violin.

        Do you also work for ACA/Today Tonight or does this sappy, emotive, deflective drivel that you spout come naturally to you because you've lost most arguments before they've even begun?

        I'm sorry, I didn't know you're a celibate, vegan, pacifist, altruistic Daoist monk speaking to me from your pristine Tibetan monastery who lives in perfect harmony with natural creation and never so much as bends a blade of grass; you apocalyptic hypocrite.

        I haven't vaccinated any kids… because I'm not playing God. Diseases exist in nature for a reason and without them and the natural selection of immunity against them the human species would not in any way resemble it's modern state today.

        I'm for leaving the tampering of natural selection and the human genome, squarely in the realm of science-fiction.

        Your comments, particularly the satanism remark, are quite frankly ridiculous..

        What the bloody hell are you on about?

        I said pro-Statism, not Satanism. Do you know what Statism is, you blithering fool?

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        Justtip on 26/06/2014 - 01:31

        Admittedly I read that wrong, my bad..

        Look I'm not in to petty slander over an anonymous Internet forum meant for bargains. If you want to discuss this further lets keep it away from here.

        Peace out

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    Thaal Sinestro on 24/06/2014 - 23:37

    +2

    The articles you linked to are interesting. Gates definitely has a statist agenda (this word is normally only used by American conservatives). Personally I feel that there are already too many people in the world and things need to be done to reduce fertility in high birth areas of the world. However, I don't like the Gates pushing compulsory vaccination, and don't see how that can be linked to population control, unless governments added some fertility lowering substance to vaccines.

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      Gnostikos on 25/06/2014 - 19:40

      -1

      Personally I feel that there are already too many people in the world and things need to be done to reduce fertility in high birth areas of the world. However, I don't like the Gates pushing compulsory vaccination, and don't see how that can be linked to population control, unless governments added some fertility lowering substance to vaccines.

      I could write here at immense length here about how Malthusian-inspired views on demography and human population are utter, utter bullsh*t being propagated for reasons completely opposed to the stated aim of tree-hugging and rainbow-loving.

      But, I'll spare people from that and say, whatever your feelings are about human population levels and projected population growth; Bill Gates' positions on the matter are untenable.

      He is in effect, advocating a limited form of eugenics, or as limited as he leads us to believe it is (men like him often harbour far more sinister motivations; but I'll stop there by saying even in his current outlook, he is sinister enough to warrant strong opposition).

      In that video on Death Panels, he essentially equivocates sacrificing terminally-ill people to make away for extra Government revenue that can be used to fund teacher's salaries.

      That is, and this is not hyperbole, what Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthansia program was exactly about. Sterilising anyone deemed to be a financial burden to society to free up resources for the state, which went into "worthy" causes (in other words, bolstering and cementing the iron-glad grip of oligarchs and tyrants on that society).

      Then there's the obvious contradiction of wanting less people on the planet, which he obviously endorses, but his advocacy of strengthening healthcare and vaccination programs in the Third World, which is the source of a majority of people being born since the end of the Cold War.

      Whether it sounds politically-correct or not, what balances out the incredibly high birth-rates of Third World families and keeps the world at large from having a serious population imbalance problem, is the much higher infant mortality rates in the Third World.

      And yet here's Bill saying that we have to improve healthcare in the Third World, but also reduce population levels, especially in the nations with the highest birth rates.

      The only way of accomplishing that is by a covert program of sterilisation masquerading as some noble, altruistic effort at helping misfortune countries.

      And if you think that is nonsense, then you are urged to consider these quotes from people in far higher positions of authority than Bill Gates, who have solemnly contemplated the matter:

      "Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind."
      Teddy Roosevelt in a letter to C. Davenport, 1913

      “In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”
      J. Cousteau, Explorer and UNESCO Courier - November 1991

      "A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
      The world's largest private land-owner and founder of CNN, Ted Turner in an interview with Audubon magazine

      "There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…"
      Thomas Ferguson, former official in the U.S. State Department Office of Population Affairs, 1981.

      "The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
      Barack Obama's primary science adviser, John P. Holdren in his book "Ecoscience" p. 786/787, 1977.

      “The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size.”
      Professor Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.135

      "We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now."
      Sir David Attenborough as quoted by The Telegraph

      "Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins."
      Paul Ehrlich, former science adviser to president George W. Bush.

      "We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."
      Nina Fedoroff, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton in an interview with BBC One.

      "All of our problems are the result of overbreeding among the working class."
      Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger, 1918.

      "Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World."
      Henry Kissinger, National Security Memo 200, April 24, 1974

      “We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
      Mikhail Gorbachev

      "Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license … All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
      David Brower, the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club.

      "Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers may be necessary in order to do so."
      Colorado State University Professor Philip Cafaro in a paper entitled “Climate Ethics and Population Policy

      "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."
      U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

      "I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today” and, “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”
      Dave Foreman, Sierra Club and co founder of Earth First

      "I’m pro-choice, I’m for assisted suicide, I’m for regular suicide, I’m for whatever gets the freeway moving – that’s what I’m for. It’s too crowded, the planet is too crowded and we need to promote death." Bill Maher, Star Talk Radio, 2012.

      “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill … All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
      Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, pg.75 (Scribd pg. 85)

      “If the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as certain as anything can be that the situation will become increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can be controlled, and even reversed; but it demands cooperation on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far.“
      The Fairfield Osborne Lecture by Prince Philip

      “I don’t claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.“
      Preface to Down to Earth by Prince Philip

      If those words from those individuals do not alarm a normal person; you've thrown in the towel, on life. Period.

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    robertm on 25/06/2014 - 00:09

    Thanks for the interesting links. Upvoted!

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  lovebargain87 on 24/06/2014 - 21:01

  To think like Bill Gates you need first to be named like Bill Gates. Gates of Bill he is!

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  RockyRaccoon on 24/06/2014 - 21:02

  +4

  Its by this A.Y.Fellow (again). Its just someone who is trying to live off Gates name.

  Anyone can say something is Gates Like, Jobs Like Buffett like (Yes AY has already done that) RRP 3.75 oh yea sure… First published June21 2014 - like its been a best seller reduced after 3 days at the top!!

  It's free and that's the probably only redeeming point,

  Waiting for the Bargaining like Scott Yang book…..

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  muncan on 24/06/2014 - 21:10

  +2

  Thumbnail:

  Look inside Bill Gates

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  Kanasuke on 25/06/2014 - 00:18

  +2

  This guy is OBSESSED with eugenics and population control, publicly saying that they need to use vaccines to maybe reduce the population and then investing billions into eugenics research programs.

  He is also a big funder of the Common Core education program in the US that dumbs down kids.
  All facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp_mp5cJMDU

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  cheepwun on 25/06/2014 - 00:45

  +1

  Bill Gates loves Monsanto. Please eat more genetically modified food, develop strange illnesses (& become sterile) then die. Also, take Bill's vaccines. And don't mind that Windows has been developed in conjunction with the NSA for decades.

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  tomwood on 25/06/2014 - 04:40

  +3

  where's all these loony views and theories coming from?

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    cheepwun on 25/06/2014 - 10:36

    you obviously have no interest in where the super-rich invest and why they invest, nor Bill's thoughts and actions on a wide range of topics affecting the lives of millions of people.

    When or if you actually do find you have a passing interest, you might find something.

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    CuteChocobo on 25/06/2014 - 11:14

    +1

    From the Jelly within!

    When someone who is rich and don't contribute he is called a selfish person.
    When someone who is rich and donate a lot to research and helping people around the world he is then called a man-of-motive.

    There is nothing a rich can do without getting criticism from those who are jealous of their success or wants to be them. These people prefer to sit behind the computer and come up with loony theories than to take action. Saying is easier than doing it. Do nothing is safer than to do something. People are afraid to do because they are afraid to fail. People are afraid to contribute because they are afraid to be criticized. This is the world we live in and it is sad :(

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      cheepwun on 25/06/2014 - 11:27

      Oh yes it's jealousy rather than a genuine concern for fellow mankind. Gates has no financial motives for his lovely philanthropy either. It's all sunshine and rainbows. And his thoughts on eugenics is something we should ignore…

      You have it all worked out.
      In other news, the slave loves their slavery.

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    Gnostikos on 25/06/2014 - 20:03

    How exactly is it loony to take words out of Bill Gates' own mouth and say them ad verbatim here?

    It must be so easy being as placated, tranquilised and psychologically castrated as you lot; everything that requires too much analysis is merely disregarded, even if that leads one into an ordinarily unsympathetic viewpoint, like supporting a horribly unethical organisation like Microsoft and it's notoriously monopolistic kingpin, Bill Gates.

    Do you honestly think that an ivory-tower aristocrat like that, who has been an unrivalled captain of industry for years, doesn't have some sick, twisted thoughts kicking around in his head?

    You that's where his world view ends, with just some limited population control checks in place?

    The naivety and cognitive dissonance of modern-day human beings is a perception as unfamiliar and unpleasant to me as blow-torching my nipples off.

    Maybe Bill's ideas kicked in before you people were already born, who knows. Something's in the water.

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  abh_gup on 26/06/2014 - 09:32

  i was thankful to Bill when i was still in school… for age of empires III and windows 98 se… apart from that, i don't really know if i should think any better of him and his 'deeds'