Bill Gates to High School students ( or was it to us as well?)
Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it.
Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something
BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 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 thought you were.
So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's 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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Comment by Francesc Riverola on January 23, 2013 at 5:41pm -
I like the last one...
Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.They laugh at him and now he is the boss :)
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Comment by Sundaram on January 23, 2013 at 5:59pm -
Rule 12 : Do not take trade advice from chatroom or blogposts :-p
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Comment by Oasis on January 23, 2013 at 6:02pm -
Sundaram, that is how I would interpret rule # 6.
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Comment by Lisa on January 23, 2013 at 6:32pm -
I like Rule #7
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Comment by Oasis on January 23, 2013 at 7:12pm
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Agree with you Lisa.
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Comment by Keith Shaw on January 23, 2013 at 8:49pm -
Rule 11
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Comment by Peter jcp on January 23, 2013 at 9:03pm -
He needs the right glasses on Keith ( lol) - but still looks a bit too cool to fall into the category ;-))
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Comment by Lisa on January 23, 2013 at 10:54pm
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Comment by Francesc Riverola on January 24, 2013 at 10:19am
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Keith... If Mr. Gates comes over with many "grandes" upfront, I will be delighted to work for him :)
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Comment by Romano on January 24, 2013 at 12:47pm -
That was pretty good, I like his quotes even more than those from Einstein. Nr. 1 is best.
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