Bill Gates Quit Microsoft
Posted by Su Sheng Loong on 28 Jun 2008 at 10:09 am | Tagged as: News
Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world. Currently, he is ranked the third richest man and he is well-known for his company, Microsoft. Yesterday, Bill Gates bid a teary farewell to Microsoft, by leaving his full time executive role. He will focus on his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest charity, funded in part by his vast fortune.
Microsoft has always been the biggest computer software manufacturer, focusing on producing operating system. “Microsoft Windows” and many applications such as “Microsoft Office”, “Windows Media Player” and so fourth have become the household names. However, Microsoft always tries to expand its business to other fields. For instance, Microsoft Xbox is challenging Sony PlayStation. Besides, Microsoft also has to face competition from other strong and established companies such as Google and Apple.
Nevertheless, Bill Gates is still the director as he is the biggest shareholder of Microsoft. If he were to sell all his shares, he would probably earn another billions of dollars in his bank.
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he dun nid to work anymore anyway, just need to relax liao…
Yes, he has got enough money to live without working anymore.
hie there,
Nice to see a fellow young malaysian that shares the same interest as i do. I have recently started my very own project after years of fiddling around with all sorts of investments. I have also just entered the work force after a decade of spoon fed msian style education. I have realised the best education and learning experience that i have gotten in my life were the ones after i left high school. Anyway, just dropping by to support your cause
Would love to keep in touch for future networkings.
Cheers,Debbie
Now he is following Buffett style? I guess. Buffett is very famous about his wealth and charity. He always donate almost quarter of his wealth for charity and yet he is still the richest person on earth. He is living below his mean not like Kiyosaki and Trump
Debbie: Thanks for visiting my blog and hopefully we can have a chance to network with each other!
Faisal: Both Gates and Buffett are far wealthier than Kiyosaki and Trump. Buffett is really a good role model for us.
yes… buffett live below his mean. but kiyosaki and trump have their own private jet. they choose not to live below their mean.
but yes, buffett still my best idol
have you read buffettology?
hehe.. buffet fans ah?!
i havent read any of his books yet.. currently stuck with kiyosaki..
what kiyosaki said in his books r real true.. just dat most ppl dun realise..
i guess i must finish it quick, then go read buffet to c how nice he is.. haha
i doubt i will read trump, coz i dun like the way he talk hahaha…. like very act-seh like dat in the tv programme.. hahaha
Faisal: What Buffett does is definitely something that we have to learn from. I believe many people want to be rich just because they wanr to buy luxury cars, huge mansions and so fourth. I just read a few chapters. Hehe.
Teddy: If you are interested in stock market and investing, you must definitely read Buffett’s books. Kiyosaki and Trump focus more on business and real estate. My idols are Mark Zuckerberg and Cameron Johnson. They both are geniuses in the Internet business world.
mark is facebook boy ah?
cameron is siapa ? hehe
teddy : hehe i’m a fan of “giants” in the world. whoever rich will be my idol! who knows someday you are my idol too?
by the way… what book of kiyosaki are you reading now? i will finish my “why we want you to be rich” by trump and kiyosaki (they make a book together!) tonight and use my left brain for buffettology lol. need to do some calculation! haha… who knows i’d be interested in stock market too? 
btw, do you know why trump agree to involve with apprentice? after he studied how the program would be… then he agree with some considerations! hehe. just because its not just a program but teaching us with marketing 
sheng loong : huge mansion is an asset if you can rent them or re-selling with double price haha!
Teddy: Haha. I often called Mark Zuckerberg as “Facebook Boy” too. Cameron Johnson, another great Internet entrepreneur who is about the same age as Mark Zuckerberg(maybe younger) and he is praised by Donald Trump. I will write about his success story in the future post.
Faisal: Yes, flipping the huge mansion for double price would be something very good. But normally people buy huge mansion just to enjoy themselves.
Enjoy themselves? Hmm… I guess that is because they still earn enough cash instead of rent or sell the house? If all in sudden they become poor or bankruptcy, they still can sell the house for some cash… don’t you think so?
House of course can be converted into cash and it carries some significant monetary values. However, when it comes to investing, we have to always make comparison among all the investments and evaluate each of them based on the profitability, liquidity, risk and efficiency. Moreover, many people do not buy house with cash, instead they pay by installment. So they can hardly convert the house for cash. Just my 2 cents anyway.