{"id":10,"date":"2010-06-10T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-07-20T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:16:20","slug":"the-unauthorized-guide-to-doing-business-the-bill-gates-way-author-des-dearlove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"The unauthorized guide in doing business the Bill Gates Way             Author: Des Dearlove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Unauthorized-Guide-Doing-Business-Gates\/dp\/1907312463\/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1276203532&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" class=\"wlDisabledImage\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/image.png\" width=\"157\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>The book tries to find out the keys of Bill Gates enormous success during the last 30 years. Des points out eleven secrets of his success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Be in the right place at the right time<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Fall in love with the technology<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Take no prisoners<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Hire very smart people<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Learn to survive<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Don\u2019t expect any thanks<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Assume the visionary position<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Cover all the bases<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Build a byte-sized business<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Never, ever, take your eye off the ball<\/font> <\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#444444\">Know when it\u2019s time to move on<\/font> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He elaborates every topic in a separate article and gives detailed explanation covered with anecdotes and quotes from Bill.<\/p>\n<p>My essence of the book is &#8212; you have to work hard for success and then luck comes to you as well. Sometimes it is missed, that Bill worked more or less 24h a day, was seeing holiday as weakness and finally being on holiday read books, you probably wouldn\u2019t like to read, if you study biology to make your living later on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and I like some quotes, which are still (or even) relevant today:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[,,] every successful business requires three people: a dreamer, a business man and a son of a bitch [..]\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve always said that, given our long-term approach, this business will definitely go through cycles. There will be ups and downs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are always telling analysts: Don\u2019t recommend our stock. We sell software, not stock. Lower your earnings estimate, be more conservative. It\u2019s not a long-term approach to promote the stock in any way\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 guess we can still learn from this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book tries to find out the keys of Bill Gates enormous success during the last 30 years. Des points out eleven secrets of his success: Be in the right place at the right time Fall in love with the technology Take no prisoners Hire very smart people Learn to survive Don\u2019t expect any thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rainerstrassner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}