There is no free lunch, as the saying goes. Bill Gates' triumph as the world's richest man thanks to Microsoft was not an easy way. He worked so hard.
"I'm quite a workaholic. I work on weekends, I don't like holidays," said Bill in an interview, which was quoted by us from Vanity Vair.
According to his colleague and co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, Gates liked to work all night in the early days of the company. To the extent that his secretary once thought he had passed out. His work ethic is absolutely amazing.
"One time, the new secretary came in Monday morning and saw him lying on the floor. He thought that Bill was unconscious, but that weekend he was awake and was sleeping for a while," said Paul.
Bill also hopes that Microsoft employees follow his hard work. So, Bill has memorized the license plates of all his employees' vehicles to know which employees are diligent and which are not.
"I know everyone's plate number so I can scan the parking lot and see when people are coming and when they are leaving," says Bill Gates.
Some Microsoft employees also said that Gates was a cruel boss and was difficult to satisfy. "He is very intimidating, impatient and likes to yell when he sees something he thinks is stupid. But employees still respect him," said Candace Dempsey, a former MSN employee at Microsoft.
His behavior began to change when he married Melinda Gates in 1994. Gates became a softer person and no longer worked as hard as he was in his youth. After all, Microsoft is already a giant and he is then more focused on humanitarian affairs.
It was his parents who taught Gates to be happy to share with others. "They set an excellent example for us to get involved in giving," said Bill Gates of his parentage.