RULES FOR YOUTH
By: Bill Gates
- Life is not fair; get used
to
it.
- The world won't care about
your
self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good
about yourself.
- 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.
- If you think your teacher
is
tough, wait
until you get a boss. He doesn't have a tenure.
- Flipping burgers is not
flipping: They
call it opportunity.
- If you mess up, it's not
your
parent's
fault, so don't whine.
- 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.
- 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 chances as you want to get the right
answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
- Life is not divided into
semesters. You
don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping
you find yourself.
- Television is NOT real
life. In
real
life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Be nice to nerds. Chances
are
you'll
end up working for one.
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