I don't see why this is being downvoted. If Bill darn Gates is telling you to make money by following your passion, the kid whose life goal in early childhood w

I don't see why this is being downvoted. If Bill darn Gates is telling you to make money by following your passion, the kid whose life goal in early childhood was to make a million dollars in early adulthood, he's probably trying to sell you something. Don't get me wrong, he's a cool very-much-real-nerd-like-you, but Bill Gates passion has always been winning, and his passion after that has been making money. To the extent he sacrificed his ability to make money running Microsoft, it was to fuel his primary goal of winning and being smarter than everybody else. Source: Gates: How Microsoft's Media Mogul Reinvented An Industry And Made Himself The Richest Man In America