Bill Gates' 11 Rules for life

[thunderin]

---------Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
accurate. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them 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
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 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.

[hugovsilva]

I really have no feelings for Bill Gates, but I respect him for what he accomplished. These 11 rules partially explain how he got to be where he is now. The guy is in touch with reality.

[wilson9d]

I read this the day after he gave the speech. Brilliant!

[Pooks]

nerds... that's so 80s

[Panzerfaust]

100% Truth!

[Amorphic]

i wish people would become more realist in their thinking, society is so fvcked up with people thinking they have the means by which to change the world or become the next big thing....truth is, half of these people can hardly tell which way is up let alone become successful and the sad thing is school and councellors delude these people into thinking they're 'special'

gates is right about most anything, whether you like it or not, hes a brilliant man

[Mazzive_T]

what gates said = 100% true!

[dirtball_619]

he's hit it right on the head. sink or swim in this world. survival of the fittest. thats why i think welfare is unjust. public housing as well. help yourself before you help others. and put my taxes some place were they will benefit me! not some worthless ignorant lazy P.O.S.

Hell im 18 yrs old, dropped out of highschool at 16, got into drugs. had half a mind to pull myself out of it a year and a half later without the help of rehab or parents. and here i am. no education, no degree. Yet i have 2 jobs. twilight shift for a Very reputable company with room to move up (UPS) and part time as a server at a local restaurant. yes i may work around the clock but thats what you gotta do. also because i have no choice to make my payments on my mustang(the one in my avy )


many teens after dropping out and getting into drugs would assume all they had in front of them was a life of crime ahead of them and dub themselves helpless. but its not about the cards you've been dealt its about how you play them.

bill gates is one of my idols.

Rant ended.

[Amorphic]

dirtball, edit out the rec drug names in your post or else the gestapo will hunt you down

[longhorn814]

those are great rules and so true..im gonna print them out and hang it in my office..Bill Gates obviously knows a little bit about life..afterall he didnt become a Billionaire by accident!!

[dirtball_619]

Done.

[Amorphic]

Done.

[Panzerfaust]

Wanna know one huge problem with society and kids today? 2 words for you

Education System

Teachers no longer teach kids, they preach PC ideology and spoon feed kids from A-Z.

Just another means of the "Elites" overall plan. This started a long time ago and we are now seeing the results of it all.

[Lexed]

number 11 is so true

[Lfs2shrt2bsml]

good call gates

[brewerpi]

Hate to be the one to point this out but if you google "Bill Gates 11 Rules" you will see that it's one of those things that gets forwarded to people on the internet-attach Bill Gates' name to it and someone may actually read it. Seems pretty dated- when was the last time you heard of a "car phone" being a big perk for a "vice president"...

Not that there isn't some truth in there, just doubtful that it comes Mr. Gates.

[qualityclrk1]

teacher of mine had that posted in the classroom 4 years ago....he printed it out from his e-mail...it was a chain letter and i too doubt its from bill gates

[brewerpi]

yes, it's urban legend material along with the "Robin Williams Peace Plan"...

[hugovsilva]

Bill Gates or not...the guy who wrote that has something inside his skull.

[qualityclrk1]

Bill Gates or not...the guy who wrote that has something inside his skull.

agreed

[Panzerfaust]

Oh so now we argue who it comes from instead of the obvious fact that it is 100% true.

Why concern yourself over who wrote it? That is not the point. Sheesh!

[scriptfactory]

I read this the day after he gave the speech. Brilliant!

How long ago was that?

[scriptfactory]

Hmm. While this little article has many good points I don't think it's 100% true and a few of the points should be worded differently to even be effective.

Example 1: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem but I think it would be extremely hard to accomplish anything worthwhile without self confidence.

Example 2: Flipping burgers is not beneath my "dignity" but it is a shitty job that won't get me closer to my goals in life. Working in a fast food restaurant isn't an opportunity of any kind unless I just can't find work anywhere else.

Just my personal opinion.

[qualityclrk1]

good call gates

those are great rules and so true..im gonna print them out and hang it in my office..Bill Gates obviously knows a little bit about life..afterall he didnt become a Billionaire by accident!!

he's hit it right on the head. sink or swim in this world. survival of the fittest. thats why i think welfare is unjust. public housing as well. help yourself before you help others. and put my taxes some place were they will benefit me! not some worthless ignorant lazy P.O.S.

Hell im 18 yrs old, dropped out of highschool at 16, got into drugs. had half a mind to pull myself out of it a year and a half later without the help of rehab or parents. and here i am. no education, no degree. Yet i have 2 jobs. twilight shift for a Very reputable company with room to move up (UPS) and part time as a server at a local restaurant. yes i may work around the clock but thats what you gotta do. also because i have no choice to make my payments on my mustang(the one in my avy )


many teens after dropping out and getting into drugs would assume all they had in front of them was a life of crime ahead of them and dub themselves helpless. but its not about the cards you've been dealt its about how you play them.

bill gates is one of my idols.

Rant ended.

what gates said = 100% true!

And To Answer This:

Oh so now we argue who it comes from instead of the obvious fact that it is 100% true.

Why concern yourself over who wrote it? That is not the point. Sheesh!

Why should we give this guy credit when it's not for certain he even said it....? It's true, i agree.....but i'm not patting the 2nd richest man in the world on the back for something he didnt' say lol....i think he has enough and doesn't need me to pat his back on something someone else might have said....

[qualityclrk1]

Hmm. While this little article has many good points I don't think it's 100% true and a few of the points should be worded differently to even be effective.

Example 1: The world doesn't care about your self-esteem but I think it would be extremely hard to accomplish anything worthwhile without self confidence.

Example 2: Flipping burgers is not beneath my "dignity" but it is a shitty job that won't get me closer to my goals in life. Working in a fast food restaurant isn't an opportunity of any kind unless I just can't find work anywhere else.

Just my personal opinion.

you obviously couldn't think deep enough to see the big picture....flipping burgers could lead to opportunity- ever thought about investing money? You ever heard "you have to have money to make money"...thats true, and flipping burgers shouldn't be below you, you have to start somewhere- its a way to make money that can make you more money....also the world doesn't care about your self-esteem so suck it up, and realize u have to do this or it's not going to be done...i hate school but i go because nothing else is going to cut it- i don't need to dwell on the fact it sucks and expect it to change because it bothers me... the world doesn't give 2 shits about your self-confidence either....quit thinking the world affects you when really what you're doing is affecting the world around you...

[scriptfactory]

you obviously couldn't think deep enough to see the big picture....flipping burgers could lead to opportunity- ever thought about investing money? You ever heard "you have to have money to make money"...thats true, and flipping burgers shouldn't be below you, you have to start somewhere- its a way to make money that can make you more money....also the world doesn't care about your self-esteem so suck it up, and realize u have to do this or it's not going to be done...i hate school but i go because nothing else is going to cut it- i don't need to dwell on the fact it sucks and expect it to change because it bothers me... the world doesn't give 2 shits about your self-confidence either....quit thinking the world affects you when really what you're doing is affecting the world around you...

Obviously I couldn't. My dad also told me that I should try working fast food, but I didn't listen to him and went out and got a job doing construction making $100/day when I was 17yo. I used my strengths (in this case my literal strength) to earn money. THAT is seizing an opportunity. I started learning computer programming when I was 15yo (started with Assembler.) This eventually lead to my career choice, a programmer. There are all sorts of opportunities around us.

Plus, you will not earn enough money to invest in ANYTHING when you are working fast food.

The world may not care about my level of self esteem, but it is crucial (for me personally) to have a high level of self esteem and self confidence to do what I need to do to be successful. I don't think I would have become succesful without it.

Just speaking from my personal experiences and opinion. :-)

[BITTAPART2]

yeah flipping burgers will only lead to opprotunity when bill gates walks in to order a burger and you say "you mofo, you told me this was spos to help a bruva out, where my piece bill?" then hed have to oblige

[Hollywood080]

And To Answer This:


Why should we give this guy credit when it's not for certain he even said it....? It's true, i agree.....but i'm not patting the 2nd richest man in the world on the back for something he didnt' say lol....i think he has enough and doesn't need me to pat his back on something someone else might have said....

he's the third richest.

1.Warren Buffet
2.Some mexican telephone guy
3.Bill Gates

[qualityclrk1]

he's the third richest.

1.Warren Buffet
2.Some mexican telephone guy
3.Bill Gates

lol ahhh how could i forget the mexican telephone guy.....my mistake....

[Drummerboy]

Bill Gates is a super duper brain.