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Originally Posted by Doku  Simple: He had the ability to fail.
He was a multi-milionaire the day he was born. This allowed him to take major risks, and not really care if he succeeded or not. If he failed, he still had millions to fall back on. Most of us don't have those options, and are forced to be much more conservative. |
Nobody's born a multi-millionaire. Sure, his parents might've been multi-millionaires but you're assuming they gave him access to a lot of their cash. Do you have any reliable sources to back this up? From brief research I can't find any hard data about how much money he was given by his parents, but the figures I've heard were not very high.
Whatever the case might be with Gates though, I simply don't buy your argument. There are plenty of people who started with nothing and became extremely wealthy, like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak for instance. Michael Dell is another one. And what about the Google founders?