Bill Gates Tells Why He Never Got into the Hotdog Business

Ice Creams to Eskimos
You’ve heard it said about someone, “You could sell ice creams to Eskimos,” which is a tribute to a person’s gift of persuasion.

Bill on Hotdogs
Bill Gates was once asked about his drive to make Microsoft what it is today. The interviewer said:

“With your insatiable drive to succeed, it has been said that you would've been successful even if you were selling hotdogs.”

Bill responded:

“No, I don't think so. I'm not sure that I could sit in a room for sixteen hours straight talking about hotdogs like I do about the possibilities of new technology.”

Tapping Into Your Passion
One of the key things about entrepreneurs and others that have invested their talents wisely is this common denominator: they have all tapped into their passion and later their lives were defined by it.

Source
Sakiya Sandifer, Believe That You Can Do Anything…But Know Your Limitations, Huffington Post, 7 August 2009.

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Image: A young William Gates lying down among his passion.