Mr. M: Good Morning Mr. Bill Gates! Welcome to my humble studio. It’s an honor having you with us, and before we begin I must thank you on behalf of my entire team for taking out some time for us!
Bill Gates: The pleasure is all mine, Mahmood!
Mr. M: So how does it feel like being called one of the richest men’s of the world?
Bill Gates: (laughs), well Mahmood, I feel like I have a bigger responsibility as someone with a lot of money. For me, the utility of money is in using it to make an organization which works for the poor (Tweedie, 2013), and that’s what I want to do. I want to make a dent in world poverty and play my part in reducing it.
Mr. M: Your thoughts are certainly no surprise to the world, considering the amount of philanthropy work you are doing for the poor. So Mr. Gates, what has been your greatest motivation behind all the work you are doing for the poor around the world?
Bill Gates: Well I would like to mention that my wife has been a great motivator for me. Quite often she and I have long meaningful dialogues about how lucky we are to be this well-endowed and how we can use this wealth in a positive way. In other words, a way that has the greatest impact on this world (Tweedie, 2013). I’m glad that she didn’t say shoes and bags like other women! (laughs)
Mr. M: (laugh)
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However, what sticks out in my mind, as an important event in my life which triggered my mission to eradicate poverty, was when Melinda and me went to Africa in 1993 on a Safari actually, but rather than watching the animals, our eyes caught hold of people over there, living in poverty well beyond our imagination! Just looking at their struggles made us want to understand more about the problems of the people living in poor countries. I changed my mind about developing an institute for basic research and instead established the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation (Wired
Does it do any good? Should we praise them for giving so much or criticize them for not giving still more? Is it troubling that such momentous decisions are made by a few extremely wealthy individuals? And how do our judgements about them reflect on our own ways of living?” (Wallace, 268).
Whether he is teaching others or obtaining knowledge for himself, he shares this view to help create a better society. When asked what is the most important thing I can do in this world, he replied "to educate people". He wants to be "a contributor". At first, I thought just in the field of education; however after I asked him to elaborate, I discovered he also does a lot of charity work. He is a facilitator of a student club and regularly works with them to help those in the community.
Everyone has a dream or something they want to follow in life. Some want material gain while others want to help as many people as they can. I’m not saying wanting material gain is a bad thing, but what I am saying is that for me, money is not the number one concern when my dream is to help others. My hunger to help others only grows by the day. Because of what’s going on in the world we live in today, I believe that it is important that those who are less fortunate than others have the assistance they need to get to an even playing field, health-wise, with others.
She decided to take up this initiative as a way of giving back to society, "God has blessed me in all ways possible and the only way to give thanks is by giving and supporting the less fortunate," She said.
However, further than enhancing the quality of her work, Smith applies her desire to help others on a larger scale as well (Careers, n.d.). Innate altruism is an essential characteristic for our business and a fundamental company value. As a non-profit charity organization, the desire to help others is what makes our business run. Filling our team with other employees that share that value will make us a more successful and holistic company. Smith’s caring and friendly persona promotes a positive image for the company. Additionally, aligning our company and employee values greatly enhances our credibility and integrity with the public.
When I was eight years of age, I started to realize that there was an entire word outside of the town, state, and country that I lived in. I became concerned about the lives of others, even those that I didn’t know personally. I often thought “There are people in other countries that don’t even have enough water to live, and I am living an amazing life here in America”. Not only was I concerned for those people, but I took action to help them. It was then that I started a fundraiser to raise money for people that can’t afford the basic necessities to live in third world countries. To this day, I have been saving every penny I could afford to make sure other people can live a better life.
Andy Beckett, Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | World news | The ...(July 12 , 2010) retrieved o June 4, 2015 from
Thank you for taking the time to speak with me this morning. I hope Monday will work for you to meet with Alex Berry, People’s Chief Compliance Officer, and myself.
From hardship came passion; I am now driven to make an impact on the issues
This is especially prevalent in Freeland’s book, as she argues that the rich are pulling away while the poorer folk are losing their relative share and have no means to climb the proverbial ladder. Freeland highlights the example of Charlie Chaplin, who lived in an era where he was lucky to have opportunity to be an actor and artist under the new medium of film, and he could easily make a fortune in his line of work due to a lack of competition (Freeland 2012, 98). A story with a similar theme could be told for Bill Gates in the technology industry. Since these individuals were the first past the post in their respective fields, the possibility of successful newcomers has shrunken significantly. Even more strikingly, Freeland highlights the ‘rent-seeking’ activities of the super-rich, where they attempt to increase the scope of their entitlements and in the process, oust lower class individuals from rising to their level (Freeland 2012, 188). For instance, Freeland emphasizes that multi-million dollar payments have been made to bankers whose financial institutions were bailed out and cost the taxpayers trillions (Freeland 2012, 190). This is a grossly disproportionate type of event where the average middle-class individual has to pay for the welfare of the super-rich. Due to rising awareness of
Bill Gates puts his money where his mouth is. He had donated huge amounts of money for "development of new vaccines" and their distribution "where children need them." Ten billion dollars over the next ten years - "the benefits... including reducing the population growth... it really allows a society a chance, to take care of itself, once you've made that
“The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet's wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super
a. Support: At forbes.com last accessed in September 2013, states that Bill Gates is the wealthiest man in America and his current net worth is 72 billion and is considered to be number 6 of the most powerful people.
"Bill Gates is a modern business phenomenon: the greatest of the cyber- tycoons. He is not simply a story of technical brilliance and enormous wealth; it is one of remarkable business vision and an obsessive desire to win. It is also about a leadership style that is radically different to anything the business world has seen before"
What Bill Gates has is the capability to imagine and execute a business method that is just about unmatched. (The Economist Newspaper and the Economist Group, 1998)