Bill Gates - Insights to anybody starting out…

• life isn’t fair – get used to it

• the World doesn’t care about your self esteem; it expects you to accomplish something before feeling good about yourself

• you won’t make $60,000 a year right out of school, or be a vice-president with a car phone. You have to earn it!

• think your teacher’s tough? wait till you have a boss – he owns the company!

• flipping burgers isn’t beneath you; your grandparents called it opportunity!

• your parents weren’t always boring; it came from feeding you, washing your clothes and paying your bills. So before you save the rain forest from the ‘parasites’ of your parents generation, try delousing your own wardrobe!

• some schools may have abolished winners and losers but life hasn’t!They may have eradicated ‘fail grades’ and given you as long as you want to get the right answer. This bears no resemblance to reality!

• life isn’t divided into terms; you don’t get summers off. Employers aren’t interested in helping you ‘find yourself’; you do that on your own time

• unlike television, real people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to work!

• be kind to nerds – chances are you’ll end up working for one!