Chapter 3 Reflection

Kelvin Paez
Ms. Benjamin
3-4 A
24 February 2016

    My definition of success would be, to become completely rich, be happy, give money to charity, and to take advantage of opportunities. I believe so, because being rich would mean that one has made in life with his/her career. However, money cannot buy happiness, so being happy is a necessity for being successful. In addition , I believe giving money to charity is another factor of being successful because you are not greedy with your money, and you would donate some or even most of it for good causes. Based upon my idea of success the person I believe that most fits my definition, would be Bill Gates.
   Primarily, William Henry Gates III or better known as Bill Gates was born on October 28th 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates dropped out of Harvard University to pursue his dreams as a programmer and started his own company called Microsoft.
  Moreover, Gates is my role model because he is simply, filthy rich. With a net worth of 29.2 billion USD he is on the charts for the richest people in the world. This man has took a risk, and left a prestigious college to pursue his dreams, of being a computer software programmer. The risk he took, resulting into his benefit of becoming a billionaire and that is one reason why he is my role model. During the time Gates began pursuing his dreams, computer software was this new concept thus, there was very little competition. As a result, Microsoft was able to become a boom in business due to the fact, that there were very little computer software programs out there, in the first place. If Gates was pursuing his dreams at another time such as now, he would not be nearly as successful as he is now, at such a fast rate.
  Furthermore, Bill Gates is a person  I look up to because he donated so much to charity. He promised by the time he died he would donate 95% of his personal fortune, so far he has donated 28 billion dollars to charities. These donations usually end up to help out countries that cannot afford vaccinations also, innovations in which can prevent diseases in these countries. Gates could have simply kept all the money to himself and passed it through his family generations but, he decided to share it with the world to help us out.