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Benzinga
Benzinga
Business
Chris Katje

Bill Gates Says This 'Very Bad Habit' Nearly Derailed His Career

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Billionaire Bill Gates is worth $175 billion today and helped transform the tech industry by co-founding Microsoft. Things could have looked a lot different if Gates didn't fix a bad habit along the way.

While an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Gates has a bad habit of procrastinating.

“I liked to show people that I didn’t do any work, and that I didn’t go to classes and I didn’t care,” Gates said in a 2005 Q&A session with Warren Buffett, as reported by CNBC.

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