Business Leaders | Lori Weintrob

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.- Bill Gates Biography Bill Gates is one of the greatest leaders in history. His work has such an impact on technology today and our way of life. Because of Apple and other modern technology I feel as though Bill Gates does not get the credit he deserved.Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington to Mary and William Gates. Gates also had to sisters, Kristianne(older) and Libby (younger). Early on Bill was always playing bored Games and reading encyclopedias. His parents were worried about him and his social life so when he was 13 they enrolled him. in Lakeside School, An exclusively private high school. Soon after attending the school Gates started to ace all of his classes. Bill had became one of the smartest...

“Consumers don’t know what they want until we’ve shown them.” – Steve Jobs A visionary, an entrepreneur, a leader, the father of Apple, many people see Steve Jobs as these, not only for how or what he did to raise Apple from the ground but for his accomplishments. His accomplishments improved technology as well as consumers everyday lives from the Ipod to the Iphone to the Ipad. He is criticized as being an entrepreneur that did not care for his family but only for his business as well as the entrepreneur that ended the music CD business. But through his simplicity and confidence and through his leadership methods which allowed him to connect with consumers and employees alike, letting him succeed in the business world like few else. Steven Jobs’s background: Born out of wedlock, his mother, Joanne Schieble, a German/Swiss Catholic, under pressure...