Bill Gates' 11 rules

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Well, the Justice Dept is teaching him he is wrong about #1. And #11 has never applied to me, yet.

 BILL GATES' 11 RULES

 In Bill Gates' book (Business @ The Speed of Thought),
 he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high
 school or college. He argues that our feel good,
 politically correct teachings have created a generation
 of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for
 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.
 The world will expect you to accomplish something
 BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

 RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars 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. He doesn't have tenure.

 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; 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.
      Joyce Cotton
      Organize It with Joy!
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good rules to live by. :slight_smile:

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Did this really come from Bill Gates?
It sounds like a Talk Show Host out here… Although #3 may not apply in the Bay Area - starting salaries are really higher than that for the moment.

But I strongly agree with these statements, and the observation about what goes on in many schools these days. I take extra care to teach my son the basic values and facts first.

Sili

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I’m pretty sure you have to go through at least two years of college to get hired for that much, at least for full time work, but then again, my 15 year old friend is already making something like $40/hour…

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rock on Bill if he really said it…
Kids in schools definitely need to learn that life is not what they see on tv and what they play in school, this generation is lacking in direction and discipline to a very large extent.

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I have little trouble believing that Mr. Gates said/wrote those. Mr. Gates is basically a very pragmatic and practical man for all his other faults. You don’t get anywhere near the power and money that he has without being very much the person who looks at everything in terms of realistic opertunities and ambition.