Note: There is some doubt that Bill Gates ever created these 11 rules. Apparently, they surfaced in about the Year 2000. Whoever wrote them, they are worth considering.
Rule 1: Life is not fair.
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 likely 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.
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 happen 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 their jobs.
