Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Steve Jobs was not 'warm and fuzzy': biographer
Jobs, despite being worth billions of dollars, lived in a modest house in Palo Alto and was determined not to let money change him.
Jobs told Isaacson a lot of people had changed at Apple after becoming wealthy.
"A few people went out and bought Rolls-Royces and they bought homes, and their wives got plastic surgery," Jobs said.
"I saw these people who were really nice, simple people turn into these bizarro people," he said. "And I made a promise to myself. I said: ‘I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.’"
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And here's a real world example to explain Precession Theory...
Bill Gates to Students: I Didn't Dream About Being Super-Rich
I think most people who have done well have just found something they're nuts about doing. Then they figure out a system to hire their friends to do it with them. It it's an area of great impact, then sometimes you get financial independence.
"I didn't start out with the dream of being super-rich. And even after we started Microsoft, and the guys who ran Intel—Gordon Moore and those guys—were billionaires, I was like, 'Wow, that must be strange.' And so—it is, it's quite strange."
Wealth above a certain level, really, it's a responsibility that then you're going have to either, a.) leave it to your children, which may or may not be good for them, or b.) try to be smart about giving it away…So I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, because there's meaningful freedom that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that—you know, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. Dick's has not raised their prices enough…But, you know, being ambitious is good. You just have to pick what you enjoy doing.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395453,00.asp#fbid=1hwS0uB4cWV
Bill Gates not bothered by Steve Jobs's comments in biography
While Gates said he found Jobs to be a "weirdly flawed human being," Jobs asserted that Gates was a "basically unimaginative" person who "never invented anything... He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/31/bill_gates_not_bothered_by_steve_jobss_comments_in_biography.html
Jobs, despite being worth billions of dollars, lived in a modest house in Palo Alto and was determined not to let money change him.
Jobs told Isaacson a lot of people had changed at Apple after becoming wealthy.
"A few people went out and bought Rolls-Royces and they bought homes, and their wives got plastic surgery," Jobs said.
"I saw these people who were really nice, simple people turn into these bizarro people," he said. "And I made a promise to myself. I said: ‘I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.’"
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=5597108&sponsor=
And here's a real world example to explain Precession Theory...
Bill Gates to Students: I Didn't Dream About Being Super-Rich
I think most people who have done well have just found something they're nuts about doing. Then they figure out a system to hire their friends to do it with them. It it's an area of great impact, then sometimes you get financial independence.
"I didn't start out with the dream of being super-rich. And even after we started Microsoft, and the guys who ran Intel—Gordon Moore and those guys—were billionaires, I was like, 'Wow, that must be strange.' And so—it is, it's quite strange."
Wealth above a certain level, really, it's a responsibility that then you're going have to either, a.) leave it to your children, which may or may not be good for them, or b.) try to be smart about giving it away…So I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, because there's meaningful freedom that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that—you know, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. Dick's has not raised their prices enough…But, you know, being ambitious is good. You just have to pick what you enjoy doing.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395453,00.asp#fbid=1hwS0uB4cWV
Bill Gates not bothered by Steve Jobs's comments in biography
While Gates said he found Jobs to be a "weirdly flawed human being," Jobs asserted that Gates was a "basically unimaginative" person who "never invented anything... He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/31/bill_gates_not_bothered_by_steve_jobss_comments_in_biography.html
