Jim Anderson

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July 27, 2001, on Why Bill Gates is Richer than You:
He is just highly skilled in the game of business. It never ceases to amaze me how the most successful people in America are considered evil, dishonest, or any other thing that creates social ill. Bill Gates, however he did it, succeeded beyond anyone else. Instead of being jealous of him, we should study him, and how he did it. If there were things he did that were socially unacceptable, we can look at that, but nobody is perfect. I doubt any of his personal weaknesses justify making him the explanation for our social ills. Bill Gates has created more wealth, through Microsoft, than any other company in the history of the U.S. We should be thanking him for our economic prosperity being further advanced in our country. Isn't that a principle our country was founded on? We need more entrepreneurs like him.