Monday, June 23, 2014

Rules of Life-Bill Gates

Rules of Life

In a speech to a high school, 2002, Bill Gates dished out eleven things they would not learn in school. The Microsoft boss talked about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation with no concept of reality, setting them up for possible failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it. 

Rule 2:: The world won't care about your self-esteem. It will expect you to  accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't  be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. 
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a  different word for burger flipping ..they called it opportunity. 

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about  your mistakes ... learn from them. 

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are  now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and  listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain> forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet  in your own room. 

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers ... but life  has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give  you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the  slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. 

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very  few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. 

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the  coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one

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