Non-Fiction Print Resources

Articles from Online Databases

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• Isaacson, W. (1997). In search of the real Bill Gates. (cover story). Time International (South Pacific Edition), (2), 34.

Websites

• Conklin, E. (2020, October 28). 9 inspirational quotes from billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates. Entrepreneur.  https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/9-inspirational-quotes-from-billionaire-entrepreneur-bill/303526
• Desjardins, J. (2017, August 31). How Bill Gates went from childhood nerd to multi-billionaire. Visual Capitalist. http://www.visualcapitalist.com/bill-gates-nerd-multi-billionaire/

• Balasa, V. (2022, August 10). Failure is feedback: How 5 billionaires had to fail to succeed. Hongkiat. https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/fail-to-succeed-billionaires/

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• Young, K. (Host). (2016, January 31). Bill Gates [Audio Podcast episode]. In Desert Island Discs. BBC Radio 4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z1zdt

This website has a radio interview with Bill Gates. Start listening at 10:58 to find out about his parents and childhood.

• Interview with Bill Gates. (n.d.). National Museum of American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm

• Bill Gates – Before he was famous. (2018, October 18). i-programmer.info. http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/606-bill-gates.html

Videos

Cherry Manalili. (2013, March 11). The.Bill.Gates.Story [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu1fBJ9b0mQ

The start of this video provides good information about Bill Gate’s early life.

Evan Carmichael. (2015, June 27). Bill Gates’s top 10 rules for success [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq-gba5nMrc