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why do you want to retire at the age of 68? bill gates: i want to work for another 20-30 years

2024-09-09

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according to fast technology on september 9, if you are 68 years old, will you retire? bill gates’ answer is no.

although bill gates, the founder of microsoft, has left microsoft's front-line business for a long time, he has never been idle and wants to continue working for a long time.

gates, 68, said in an interview that as long as his body allows, he would like to "work for at least another 10 years, and hopefully 20 or 30 years."

gates previously revealed that when he was in his 20s, he was only thinking about microsoft's business and "didn't look forward to weekends and holidays." he not only put pressure on himself, but also hoped that the company's employees would have the same attitude. at that time, he even wrote down the license plate numbers of employees so that he could "know when someone came to work and when they left work" by looking at the clock-in records.

in a joint interview with gates and buffett in 2017, buffett advised gates not to push himself and his employees too hard, and that it was more important to control his own time than to control the time of others. gates seemed to have taken buffett's advice to heart.

last year, gates said at the northern arizona university's commencement ceremony that he wished someone had told him earlier that "take a break when you need one."