Yo, today's Q-O-D is sometimes it's risky not to take a risk. Here we go

Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show I'm your host Sean Crox and a

Sean Crox and dot com. It's throwback Thursday and we're turning back that

clock all the way to episode number 602 in our feature speaker Dr. Dennis

Kimbrough. Today Dr. Kimbrough is going to share some stories about what it

takes to become a successful human being. You've got to take risk. You've got

to actually do the work and you got to get gritty. Here's Dr. Kimbrough. Well

it's been a number of years since I've been at the MBA level. All right. But when

I was several years ago I always taught entrepreneurship. That is my class

that's what I'm known for and I always use the Bill Gates case. I always use

the Bill Gates case. And what do you know about Bill Gates? Well it depends

you go ahead and read the Harvard business case and what does Harvard say?

Spring semester is freshman year Bill Gates drops out of Harvard. Why?

Because in between classes he and his best friend Paul Allen go to a bookstore.

And they gravitate over to the magazine section and they stumble upon a

magazine that's throwing out of challenge for anybody who can come up as an

operating system that would allow two computers to talk. Now I might be the

oldest individual in this room. I am walking distance and the next month I

will be 67 years old and I remember when you had 50 million different PC

manufacturers in the early 1980s and none of them could share data. Why? They

didn't have an operating system 50 million different operating systems. So

they stumbled upon this magazine throwing out the challenge and what does

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