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mishlert
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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject: Bill Gates's 11 Rules of Life |
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He gave a speech to a high school some years back, and this is what he told them.
I especially like rule 7.
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. 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.
--There may be virtual reality, but there is no such thing as virtual happiness-- |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Bill Gates's 11 Rules of Life |
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| mishlert wrote: |
| 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. |
 Exactly.
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| 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. |
He IS a genius. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| He's one of my heroes. Great, modern, realist thinker. |
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cbclark4
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Location: Masan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Still blaming your parents? 
See rule 6 |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| It's an urban (internet) myth. He didn't write them. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| bookreader wrote: |
He was born wealthy and connected in the right place at the right time.
Gates = YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
The fact he is a genius had nothing to do with his success? I agree on right place and right time, but history shows all persons of greatness to fit into that category.
If he was born with a bit of money but an idiot, he wouldn't be the Bill Gates that people look up to today. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Total fake. Didn't you notice they forgot rule 12: "Release an inferior product and then make people pay for upgrades for the next three years." |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| "Release an inferior product and then make people pay for upgrades for the next three years." |
True. Netscape and WordPerfect were superior products but Microsoft bundled its products and violated anti-competition legislation to which they were eventually convicted. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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WordPerfect was perfect.
Is it still around?
And for serious number-crunching, Lotus 1-2-3 was the tops - can you still get that? |
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
WordPerfect was perfect.
Is it still around?
And for serious number-crunching, Lotus 1-2-3 was the tops - can you still get that? |
Yes it is.
Yes to Lotus as well. |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
WordPerfect was perfect.
Is it still around?
And for serious number-crunching, Lotus 1-2-3 was the tops - can you still get that? |
yes, I use wordperfect and most large corporate law firms do too. It's awesome. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:52 am Post subject: |
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It's worth remembering that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending tens of billions of dollars to promote health and education around the world. Yes, he's filthy rich and has many more billions but he is actually doing it. The foundation paid out 1.56 billion in 2006 alone. A lot of other rich men do next to nothing.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/FactSheet/ |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
It's worth remembering that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending tens of billions of dollars to promote health and education around the world. Yes, he's filthy rich and has many more billions but he is actually doing it. The foundation paid out 1.56 billion in 2006 alone. A lot of other rich men do next to nothing.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/FactSheet/ |
$1.65 billion is peanuts in a world where 1.65 billion people live on $1 day. He just gave them pay raise of 0.002739726027397260273972602739726%
God or Jesus said to do good works in private. You have to do the work anonymously or its just making a purchase. |
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eamo
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| Tony_Balony wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
It's worth remembering that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending tens of billions of dollars to promote health and education around the world. Yes, he's filthy rich and has many more billions but he is actually doing it. The foundation paid out 1.56 billion in 2006 alone. A lot of other rich men do next to nothing.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/FactSheet/ |
$1.65 billion is peanuts in a world where 1.65 billion people live on $1 day. He just gave them pay raise of 0.002739726027397260273972602739726%
God or Jesus said to do good works in private. You have to do the work anonymously or its just making a purchase. |
Is he expected to save every unfortunate in the world?!!
How could a famous person like Gates give so much money away privately???!!
Think about it! |
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