William Henry Gates a.k.a. Bill Gates (born 28 October 1955) is an American businessman, the head of the Microsoft corporation, and the richest man on the planet for several years.

1. Life is not fair; get used to it.

2. The world won’t care about your SELF-ESTEEM. The world will expect you to ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING beforehand.

3. You will NOT make USD 60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice president with a personal driver until you earn both.

4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

6. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, LEARN from them. Change your attitude to failure.

7. Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as you think they are now. Maybe it was because of the constant care of you they got that way? They pay your bills, buy your clothes and always listen to you talk about how cool you are. So before you criticize your parents’ generation, start with yourself.

8. Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they’ll give you AS MANY TIMES as you want to get the RIGHT answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

9. Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summer off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

18 FACTS ABOUT BILL GATES:

1. Bill Gates is the richest man on the planet.
2. Bill Gates went to the most privileged school in Seattle, where he was able to develop his programming skills on a school mini-computer.
3. His great-grandfather was a legislator and mayor, grandfather was vice president of the State Bank in his state, and his father was a successful lawyer.
4. At school, Gates did not succeed in grammar, civics and other subjects which he considered trivial, but he got higher marks in maths.
5. By the tenth grade, Bill no longer studied computer science, but taught it. That was also when he created a program for teaching his class. This program also had a secret purpose. It chose classes with the “cool girls” for its creator.
6. He was 15 years old when he wrote a program to regulate traffic and earned USD 20,000 for this project. And when he was 17, he received a proposal to write a software package for the power distribution of the Bonneville Dam.
7. For the rest of his life, if Gates did compromise, it was on the precondition that “I’ll be the boss.”
8. In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard University, but was expelled after 2 years, since he was already heavily engaged in the software development.
9. The first five customers of Microsoft went bankrupt, but the guys did not despair and returned to Seattle in 1979. Bill Gates was expelled from the university for truancy and academical failure, but this fact did not bother this failed student much, as he received an offer from IBM to create an operating system for the world’s first personal computer.
10. Bill Gates purchased QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for USD 50,000, changed the name to MS-DOS and sold the license to IBM. This money allowed Microsoft to work for several years. The presentation of the new IBM computer with Microsoft software caused a real sensation in the market. Many companies contacted Microsoft for a license.
11. In 1986, Microsoft became an open joint-stock company. In the same year, Bill Gates became a billionaire at the age of 31.
12. On 15 June 2008, Bill Gates announced his intention to resign from the position of Microsoft Chairman of the Board of Directors as of July 2008. After his resignation, he intends to focus entirely on the management of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
13. As for his religious views, Gates is most likely an agnostic. When the reporter of the Times asked if he believes in God, Bill Gates replied that he had no evidence of his existence.
14. Bill’s wife Melinda Gates is one of the most influential women in the world. In 2012, Melinda openly challenged the Vatican and vowed to devote her life to creating affordable contraceptive methods for women in the world’s poorest countries. The Gates Foundation is ready to invest USD 140 million annually in this project.
15. These days, Bill and his family live in their “home of the future”, called so because of the large amount of electronics controlling the estate. The house is located on the shore of Lake Washington in the suburbs of Medina and occupies about 12,000 sq.m. This luxurious mansion is worth USD 147.5 million, and the property tax is over USD 1 million a year.
16. Gates pays about USD 1 million in property taxes a year.
17. Books: The Road Ahead, Business at the Speed of Thought.
18. Books about Bill Gates: Bill Gates Speaks by Janet Lowe. Business the Bill Gates Way by DezDirloff.

It is not enough to be able to do something well, you also need to learn how to properly present the results. NusretGökçe, world-famous professional butcher, chef and restaurateur from Turkey, knows it all too well.

A year ago, a culinary video went viral and won over many lovers of good food and skilled memes. In the video, the chef shows the process of making an Ottoman Steak. The highlight of the video was the Nusret’s skill to sprinkle the dish with salt over his elbow. This trick earned the chef a name Salt Bae on social media and YouTube.

Gökçe’s road to success was rather bumpy. He was born in 1983 in the Turkish town of Paşali. He grew up in poverty, and did not even have the opportunity to get a decent school education: it consisted only of primary school. So now Gökçe is working hard to give a happy childhood to his nine children.

From the age of 14, Nusret had to work. As fate would have it, the boy became an assistant to a butcher. Perhaps this is what determined his future.

At the age of 27, Gökçe, having saved enough money, opened his first restaurant in Istanbul. Today he owns eight steakhouses and four burger restaurants. You can find them in Turkey, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Miami under the brand Nusr-Et. Obviously, it is named after the restaurateur, whose name translates as “with God’s help.” The hyphen is there for the wordplay: it separates Et, which sounds like “lamb” in Turkish.

Gökçe is not going to become complacent and continues to expand his geography. In January 2018, another restaurant under the well-known brand was opened in New York. But, unfortunately, it was not met with a standing ovation and eulogies. Critics attacked the food prepared by Nusret right away. According to them, it is rather mediocre, which does not justify sky-high prices. Steve Kuozzo from the New York Post compared the chef’s famous steak to boot leather and noted that his USD 130 were wasted.

This was not the end of Gökçe’s troubles and negative adventures in the city of contrasts. Fussy Americans rebelled against the way the food was cooked. Everyone suddenly remembered about the hygiene rules, and Eater.com called out for Nusret to observe them. Critics noticed bare hands of Nusr Et workers, as well as the jewellery on the chef himself during cooking (in this case, we are talking about the gold watch).

Gökçe responded to all the comments rather professionally. The day after the accusations in the media, he went to demonstrate his crown “salty” trick in black gloves. Although, salt was sprinkled on the steak over the same bare elbow.

Despite the negative reviews, public does not lose interest in Nusret’s restaurants. Their patrons include even the world-famous celebrities.

Recently, the establishment of the Turkish chef in Dubai was visited by Leonardo DiCaprio. And, oddly enough, the famous American actor was not at all afraid of the so-called unhygienic conditions, decided to see the famous Gökçe’s trick, and even tried an advertised steak.

Nusret’s talent has also been supported by Rihanna. During one of her concerts, the artist appeared on the stage wearing a T-shirt that said Salt Bae.

Admirers of the acting skills of the chef also include TV hosts and athletes. His gesture of “salting” was adopted by celebrities and was seen by many football fans as well as viewers of TV shows hosted by James Corden.

By the way, fate has long sent Gokche signs about possible problems with doing business in the US. When the chef was still trying to adapt to the future work in America, he made a number of reconnaissance trips there. Nusret was welcomed in Argentina, which cannot be said about the States themselves. Gökçe was repeatedly denied visa and was able to visit only over the three-month tourist period.

So this is the business journey of the chef, who has made his name thanks to social media. We hope that soon all Gökçe’s American troubles will be left behind and he will again become a Salt Bae of each patron of his restaurants.