Real Life Rules

Bill Gates gave a speech to schoolkids in America. These are his real life rules:

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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Well done Bill, even if only a small percentage take it to heart it''ll be worth it.

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Very good tips.

I wish all teenagers could read that and take something from it.

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It's a good list and I agree with it but Bill Gates didn't make it as he has never given the speech to a school. If you check the "snopes" urban myths website it will tell you that it's been doing the rounds on the internet since 2000 and still no one knows who wrote it.

Pity, as it's a very good list.

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You've upset me now Barry, I thought Emmerdale and Corrie were real life !

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Gates talks a lot of sense.

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You mean I can't stop by the Rovers Return for a pint when I'm down in England? Damn, I was looking forward to that.

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Bill Gates, Alan Sugar, or Richard Branson, doesn't matter who said it, it is true and until the kids today believe it then they have a long way to go before they will be anything.