Bill Gates' 11 Rules of Life
 

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 $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 and video games are 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.

I love rule #8... all of them are so true they appear to be just common sense. I would add two more

1) always tell the truth, its way easier to remember and prove if you have to
2) understand that 'facts' sometimes change. what is true today could be completely false tomorrow with the inclusion of new information.

Rule 12: Avoid the crust at all costs.

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NOT from Bill Gates

Urban legend via email

but some good advice there :thumbsup

i cunt afford to count to 11... :(

The 11 Rules of Life attributed to Bill Gates has been circulating for over a decade, but it is a fake inasmuch as those are not Gates' words.

I'm guessing this false rumor may have been as a result of this cover story in Time which appeared a year before the rumor started:

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BTW, the editors at SlashDot were apparently not impressed with Gates' 12 Step program:

It's always amusing reading how people react to false quotes/information... :winkwink:

:smilie_we

ADG

another great post by the fucking dumbass waste of space drunk loser

And why the fuck do you care what he posts?

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I once borrowed Bil Gates book from library,it was so boring i couldn't read a single sentence

yeah, let all gfy people here improve those 11 rules. Ofcourse they can do it better

Real nice.. Has he ever said anything nasty to you? No.

Just ignore him. No need to talk shit.

Thanks for sharing...

Gates Real Rule #1: don't make lists of rules. Instead use your time to get more done.

Rule #2: Go back and read rule one.

Whoever wrote it is the kind of overbearing, reactionary old cunt who'd shoot up his daughter's laptop because she went on Facebook.

Good advice...

I'd also add, 'Trust no-one - If they can ripp you off, then they will - Except family, And even IF family... Take shit with a pinch of salt...'

Human nature, unfortunately...

good stuff