““what about Bill Gates, famous for dropping out of Harvard to start Microsoft? When Gates sold a new software program as a sophomore, he waited an entire year before leaving school. Even then he didn’t drop out, but balanced his risk portfolio by applying for a leave of absence that was formally approved by the university—and by having his parents bankroll him. “Far from being one of the world’s great risk takers,” entrepreneur Rick Smith notes, “Bill Gates might more accurately be thought of as one of the world’s great risk mitigators.””
![“Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]” quote by Scott McNealy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e50/scott-mcnealy-20917_age_probably-the-most-dangerous-and-powerful_777514.jpg)
![“I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d8/steve-jobs-307_acid_i-told-bill-gates-i-believed-every-word_1509930.jpg)
![“Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.” quote by Warren Buffett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f2/warren-buffett-183_bills_mark-zuckerberg-will-be-a-hero-to-many-y_1946202.jpg)
