Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
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In business world the manager is a leader of the company that leads his/her employees to success and happiness. Being qualified for this positions one must have these aspects, aggressive, motivated, risk taker, respectful and trustworthy. One who has these qualifies is a successful manager. Two people in this world that clearly showed these qualifications are Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. They are the two of smartest, wealthiest and goal oriented people on this planet. They both succeeded in two different areas but both had the same aspects in being a manager of their company.
The video “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on Success” was with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett answering questions at University of Washington School of Business about their success and helpful tips they have learned for future successful business men and women. The video showed many aspects that gave knowledge and practices for everyone to use to become a successful manager and having a successful company. They both were very friendly and out-going with the audience which showed that what they are doing is what they really enjoy. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are two who are admire and looked up to millions of people worldwide by their knowledge and their success they have today.
Bill gates and Warren Buffett are the two most successful people in the United States some might even call them the American folk hero. “Bill Gates has an aggressive, winner-takes-all attitude; he transformed Microsoft, a small niche company, into the most influential company in the computer industry and the world for that matter. Hes driven, intelligent and doesnt apologize for the fact
that he can take you down in a flash. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, the worlds largest and most powerful (and most profitable) software company. And by the way, he is the richest man on the planet with an estimated fortune of $70 billion US (as of November 2000)”. (
“Warren Buffett came from a small town and made it big without losing sight of his roots in the process. Even though he is a billionaire many times over, he still lives in the same house he bought before he was rich and is considered an all-around good guy. Hes tough but modest, and for that we salute him. He turned his company, Berkshire Hathaway, almost single-handedly over the last 30 years, into a Fortune 500 powerhouse. He has amassed a personal fortune of $36 billion dollars and is considered the most successful investor of all-time.” (
The video “Warren Buffett and Bill Gates on Success” was with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett at University of Washington School of Business answering questions from audience about their lives, their success, and company skills. They talked and touched on many important skills and aspects to implement as a good manager of your company. There were many important aspects that can be learned from the review of the video. The three most important aspects from the video were love what your do, surround yourself with people whom you respect and trust, and be willing to take risks.
The first aspect learned from the video is love what you do. When working with a company or anything you must love what your do or you will not be able to put one hundred percent of your focus, effort, and skill into doing your job. Loving your job is the best feeling in the world because you are doing something that fulfills happiness and maybe even entertainment while being paid for it. Bill gates and Warren Buffett are one of the two most wealthiest people in the world and still put one hundred percent focus, effort, and skill into there job not because of the paycheck because they already have billions of dollars but also because they love what the do and get up each morning loving their job and the every day to day task and experience.
There are millions of people all over the country that do not love what they do which really hurts their work progress and success in the business world. When you look at the Theory X, it states that workers are lazy, not motivated, slow, and low productivity. This is a major result of not loving what you do. Not loving what you do will cause you to fall under the Theory X and labeled as a lazy worker. The video teaches us to love what you do and what will follow is success and happiness.
The second aspect learned from the video is surround yourself with people whom you respect and trust. This is a major and important aspect needed when working and especially running and or managing a company. This is because if you can not trust the people you work with or managing then it is like
working or running a company blindfolded. Trust is a major quality in every type of relationship from friendship, love relationship, marriage and workmanship. When you can not trust someone in your company then you and your company will hurt in the long run. Also respect is a major quality; you should respect everyone you work with. This will get respect coming back to you which will give a positive feedback emotionally and in productivity. When you do not have people surrounding yourself that you can trust and respect then it will cause must stress which will hurt you and your company.
Third is being willing to take risks. Bill gates and Warren Buffett stressed in the video how this aspect is very important in being successful in the business world. This aspect separates the successful people from the non-successful people. In the business world you have many decisions to make everyday and many if not all of them will include a risk. Most and almost all successful business men are the ones that take risks everyday. When taking risks in business does not mean taking some really big risk once in a while and relax and wait for a while. Taking risks in business means continuously taking many little risks and always improving on something. Risks are situations that will either enhance your company or hurt your company, but you must be a risk taker in order to succeed. “Risk comes from not knowing what youre doing”. Quote by Warren Buffett. (
As a manager of my company I would implement those three aspects learned from the video to the fullest. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates strongly show these three important aspects to be true and are successful because of their position today they hold. I agree with them strongly about those three important aspects. The three