Reflection Task 3

As a jury member of the committe choosing the person of the year, I want to choose Bill Gates. I think he is the man of the year. I want to introduce you to Bill Gates. Bill Gates, who was born in 28th October 1955, is an American businessman. He is married and he has three children.

Let's talk about his career. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world's largest personal computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009. According to the Bloomberg Billionaries List, Gates was the world's richest person in 2013. Moreover, during his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored several books. Additionally, Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. 

I want to talk about his personal qualities. One of them is that he is far-seeing. He has understood importance of computer since his childhood. He believed that people all would have their own computer soon. Therefore, he drew his aim to this. Another one is that he worked in a planned way. Gates is an intelligent person but he has thought his intelligence is not enough to be successful. As well as intelligence, he has believed he should works schemingly. Another one is he always appreciates his workers. Bill Gates and Microsoft try to not to lose the workers because they are so clever people. What's more, Bill Gates answers e-mails of the worldwide workers and communicates with them in order to rise their motivation. The final one is he never get above himself against other people. In an interview in May 2006, Gates commented that he wished that he were not the richest man in the world because he disliked the attention it brought. As you see, he is a modest person. Unlike his rivals, he leads a simple life. He does not care about money much. In the light of these information, he deserves to be the man of the year.