What Do You Need To Be A Bill Gates?

If you’re reading this, then I’m sure you’ve heard of Bill Gates and the phenomena that he is.

One of the pioneers of tech-era and still ruling the world of richest men, he needs no introduction!

Obviously, he is the role model for so many youngsters who want to live a success-story like his. However, just looking at his riches wouldn’t be the right benchmark to understand his success. It goes deeper than that and one needs to imbibe certain traits of his to be really a Bill Gates!

Let me share with you some basics that you either need to have or you got to acquire, learn or adapt to even come closer to the success that Bill Gates is.

1) Idea

When Bill Gates started his career, the world was evolving at a very slow pace, technological advancements were not happening on a daily basis and even he didn’t visualise the enormous success when he started. All he had was an idea of something that might work and fulfil the needs of people. Nowadays, the world is changing really fast and solutions for yet to be found problems are coming out on a daily basis. With this background, you got to observe life around you closely, see what is it that people really need and are not getting from anywhere and how you can help them get it at an affordable cost! The idea, the vision has to come from you and then it all falls in place if you’re able to communicate that idea to the right kind of people.

2) Eagerness To Work

Just having an idea is not enough, but the urge to work for it with minimal resources is what is going to make you stand out. Don’t wait for the proper office, high-end computer, a secretary and the likes! Get your hands dirty, beg or borrow your requirements, work with anyone and everyone who can help you achieve your goals and start walking instead of waiting for things to happen.

3) Luxuries Of Life

This might sound like the really hard part, but to achieve something as big as something that Bill Gates achieved, you’ll have to let go of all the comforts and luxuries of life. Your workplace might become your home or vice versa. You might get sleep on the floor or on the couch. You might eat once a day or once in two days. You might have a social circle or might not! What remains and should remain though are your goals and targets!

4) Love For Uncertainty

It’s a world of cut-throat competition and what works today may fail tomorrow. Even with Microsoft, Bill Gates’ company, it is now struggling to stay relevant in the changed technological environment. That doesn’t mean that they have given up. Instead they are finding new ways to sustain and grow and find new avenues of doing business finding new needs of their customers to fulfil! In short, you got to love the uncertainties that come with any business. Only then can you grow and rise higher.

5) One Step Ahead

For the longest possible time Bill Gates, as an individual, has remained a step ahead of competition and even his own followers with his ability to look into the future and bring out products that catered to a future generation. One has to keep evolving and learning and ensuring that knowledge base is constantly updated to have that edge over others. Even with setbacks, the eagerness to bounce back and keep your head up should be the driving force.

6) Vision

While conducting a day to day business and going through the routine of daily work, you have to still look at the larger vision of where you are and where you got to go. While being involved in the nitty-gritties of work, you still need to be able to take a step back and have a bird’s eye view of how things are running and where do they need to go from here. You should be able to look at the future with your analytical skills and conduct your business for future while retaining the present!

7) Love For Failure

Success and failure are part of anything and everything in life. There is no success story, which didn’t have its own share of massive failures. Same goes for Bill Gates, but did he sit disappointed after every failure? No, he worked double hard to bounce back in a big way! You got to do the same!

Try following these tips and reach the pinnacles of success you only dreamt of till now!