Bill Gates’ 11 Rules of Life
July 15, 2008
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set 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 $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 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.
ps: Allegedly rules came from Bill Gates though no evidence exists 
Still worthy enough~
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Tazeen | July 15, 2008 at 10:08 am
///If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.///
This is prolly the truest one. Now that i look back, studies were a breeze
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batguano101 | July 23, 2008 at 1:42 am
No relationship to Gates is needed.
These are good counsel.
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Ersalan | July 24, 2008 at 9:58 pm
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one….”
Woohoooo! That means chances are i’l have people working for me : P~
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д§mд | July 25, 2008 at 9:49 am
Thanks ya all
Good counseling Yes even if Gates said this ever or not =)
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ali yawer | October 25, 2008 at 6:54 pm
i wounder if this rules was from bill gates or from charles j sykes … i can find a copy of these rules under charlis j sykes artical please inform me who set orginaly set these rules …just a quastion
of course the first leasion we learn life is not fair
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д§mд | October 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm
cant really say .. rules matter .. not the ppl IMHO =)
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Reuben | October 29, 2008 at 9:56 pm
It was from Charles Sykes, not Bill Gates. There are actually 3 more that are often not printed. Bill Gates never gave the speech to Mt. Whitney High School, its just a viewpoint that is expressed that uses Gates for credibility.
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д§mд | November 9, 2008 at 2:51 pm
The words matter