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Ambition is the overriding characteristic that Gates has in such abundance and most people lack. Gates was lucky to have had so much support but probably would
by staunch 16y ago
Ambition is the overriding characteristic that Gates has in such abundance and most people lack. Gates was lucky to have had so much support but probably would have taken more risk if he had been forced to.
- boh 16y agoThe amount of risks that Bill Gates would have (supposedly) been wiling to take (due to his superhuman ambition) doesn't make a difference. The support he had allowed his risks to actually come to some end and would have helped him survive failure should it have come to that. There is nothing in the history of Bill Gates that suggests that Microsoft was successful due to it's competitors' lack of ambition.
- rbanffy 16y ago> probably would have taken more risk if he had been forced to. If you are born on top of what amounts to be, effectively, an infinite pile of money (you know you will never actually be poor, no matter how terribly your business fails) are you really taking a risk? Most people who open businesses do so based on a sometimes wrong assumption the business will be able to sustain them and their families.