The 11 Rules - Bill Gates

Subject: The 11 Rules - Bill Gates Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:46 pm

These are 11 rules in life Bill Gates talked about in a speech in a high school.. They're really useful and specially the 11th one!

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 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. You have
to 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.

Number of posts : 121 Age : 32 Registration date : 2007-03-10

WOW!! This is really good, Jimmy! Thnx 4 postin it here. I do believe in the 11th rule of course and no. 10 is sooo true!

Number of posts : 118 Age : 33 Registration date : 2007-03-02

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one...this one i loveeeeeee

Number of posts : 135 Age : 34 Registration date : 2007-03-02

I've got my own rule " BE YOURSELF "

Number of posts : 40 Age : 32 Registration date : 2007-03-15

WAHEED wrote:: I've got my own rule " BE YOURSELF "

Well making an example out of Bill Gates is a good thing just because he's successful, regardless of his religion. So "BE SUCCESSFUL"

Number of posts : 135 Age : 34 Registration date : 2007-03-02

Even if he's " successful" , i'd prefer be successful my own way

Number of posts : 40 Age : 32 Registration date : 2007-03-15

Well you'll surely have to face some problems and fall into trouble out of your own mistake and handle them yourself. So if you learn from his mistakes, you won't get the trouble of handling them yourself.

Number of posts : 135 Age : 34 Registration date : 2007-03-02

What is written is written, nothing will change destiny, no one is perfect, he is not perfect..

Number of posts : 40 Age : 32 Registration date : 2007-03-15

Let's just look at it from another perspective.. If you study hard, then it is written for you to study hard. As a result, it's written for you to succeed. When you learn from others' mistakes, then it is written for you to avoid them.

This way anyone out there could just tell you that it's written for you to fail in life, then you wouldn't work, and then you eventually fail.

Now this is when it's written for you to fail. So nothing is called changing destiny. Work hard and you'll reap what you sow.