Yo, today's QOD is sometimes it's risky not to take a risk. Here we go

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and

the Sean Crox and dot com. We got a brand new motivation Monday speaker

his name is Dr. Dennis Kimbrough. He is the author of Think and Grow Rich

a Black Choice and today Dr. Kimbrough is going to share a few inspiring

greedy stories to start your week off the right way. 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 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 with an

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

oldest individual in this room. I am walking distance to end 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 Bill Gates

do? He goes to the desert New Mexico for the next seven years of his life

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