Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words

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		Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words
		Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words

Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, has been a revered, and occasionally controversial, worldwide business icon for more than three decades.

Recognized by most as an ingenious visionary, and painted by some as a tyrannical, less-than-scrupulous empire builder, Gates has had an unignorable impact on the growth of digital technology in daily life over the past 30 years. Even his sharpest critics have to acknowledge the obvious: Gates helped spearhead one of the greatest revolutions in modern history by seizing on the importance of software to the rise of the personal computer, along the way turning an arcane, specialized technology into a commonplace tool for the office and home.

Gates has long been ranked as one of the world’s wealthiest men--which gave him a name recognition far greater than that of most CEOs--and businesspeople of all stripes have looked to him as a role model, using his words and business strategies to help create, inspire, and grow their own companies. After he stopped running Microsoft's day-to-day operations in 2008 to devote himself full-time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a kinder, gentler Gates began to emerge. As a result, people actively involved in the philanthropic world, whether in professional, part-time, or personal capacities, began to develop a new appreciation for the man.

Bill Gates’s second act is no less compelling than his first. And whether you’re interested in his personal life or looking for inspiration to drive you forward in your own business endeavors, Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words has much to offer. As the tech giants who distinguished the turn of the 21st century shape public life in ways that outstrip the efforts of the previous century's titans of industry, we look to figures like Gates for inspiration as one of America's greatest business icons. This book will surely feed the world's curiosity about one of the most important leaders of the digital age.

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Praise for IMPATIENT OPTIMIST: BILL GATES IN HIS OWN WORDS

"Editor Lisa Rogak...has compiled sound bites from Chairman Bill by topic, from A (acquiring other companies) to W (working with his wife). The result is like eating salted peanuts: Once you start reading, it's hard to stop." - Anne Fisher, CNN Money

"Strategy Driven contributors appreciated the layout of Impatient Optimist, the organization of quotes around meaningful topic areas, the dating of each quote, and Bill Gates' life story timeline provided at the end of the book." - Strategy Driven


Praise for Agate B2's New York Times Best-Selling Series, IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

"[I, Steve] is the same treatment given such luminaries as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Hitchens and offers Jobs's views on life, death, technology and design, among other topics.” — Timothy R. Smith, The Washington Post

"A new book revealing many of Steve Jobs' most illuminating quotes..." — Lance Whitney, CNET

"A 160-page collection of quotes from the most iconic product pitchman since P.T. Barnum." — Ben Popper, The New York Observer BetaBeat blog

"A much better Jobs product is coming soon. It’ll entertain you for hours, and no — it is not a Jobs-branded iPad or anything similarly high-tech. It is, friends, an old-fashioned book!" — Hillary Reinsberg, Mogulite

"Inspirational reading pleasure." — Courtney Boyd Myers, The Next Web

"The kind of book that you read, think about, and then pass on to a friend or colleague...I learned a lot about Jobs’ thinking process." — Allen Stern, CenterNetworks

"[Boy Billionaire] reveals the intimate thoughts and beliefs of the man who has arguably created one of the world's largest companies…and who is also one of the world's greatest social connectors." - Strategy Driven

"A short work to be dipped into for nuggets of business (or law firm) wisdom..." — Michael Roach, Law Technology News


Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous title AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHINESS:

"A conversational, multiperspective account of his life....This is the first major biography of Colbert and one fans will appreciate." —Library Journal

"Ms. Rogak’s method of introducing Colbert the Person and Colbert the Character is near faultless....This biography could have easily been titled The Tale of Two Colberts; however, Colbert’s signature 'truthiness' seems to befit the style and enjoyment Ms. Rogak obviously had writing And Nothing But the Truthiness." —New York Journal of Books

"As close to a bio of the man — rather than the persona who hosts 'The Colbert Report' — that we'll see anytime soon." —New York Daily News


Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous book HAUNTED HEART: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEPHEN KING:

“Haunted Heart is a thoroughly respectful overview of King’s life, and a great starter biography for new fans.” —The Boston Globe

“Rogak...has pieced together King’s sometimes erratic life scrupulously into a clean, swift read.” —The Times (UK)


Praise for Lisa Rogak's previous title A BOY NAMED SHEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN:

“An authoritative and accessible biography, absorbing from cover to cover.” —Library Journal

“A tribute to the unusual life of an extraordinary man.” —The Daily Texan

网友对Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words的评论

原装正版，不错内容不是很全面。

The content is so simple and boring that i have no any interests to continue to read after finished reading the first page ...

Composing a book purely by stringing together quotes from various speeches or publications left me completely unsatisfied. Yes - obviously Bill is a sharp and savvy guy who has some meaningfully things to say. Yes - the book did bring across that point very well.
What I kept asking myself - "OK, why did he say that?". I'd really have loved to see some context for the various quotes. What caused Gates to make them? What did he do after he said them? Did he just make the comments because they are intellectually cool or politically correct, or are they something that reflect his basic character or motivations?

This book is in his own words per say. It appears that the editor took various quotes from Bill Gates from various interviews and then pasted them into the book under different topic headers to make it appear he was commenting on the topic. I suppose that is in his own words but it was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a book written by him for the purpose of explaining about himself by his own hand with his own words for the intent of writing this book.

The book was not what I had expected. I enjoyed many of Bill's "quotes" and underlined quite a few. But I had expected to read more about his life, marriage and children. I am fascinated with Melinda and how marriage changed Bill. Essentially this book is just a compilation of things Bill, and occasionally Melinda, have said and what the topic of what they said is under. Poor excuse for a book. Fortunately Bill is still worthy of underlining!

Plenty of good quotes in this book, but be aware that that's all it is - quotes. Nothing else, really. Very quick read but probably worth it for the price.

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