♦ 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 – Bill Gates

♦ If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them – Bill Gates

♦ 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 – Bill Gates

♦ Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity – Bill Gates

♦ If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss – Bill Gates

♦ The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself – Bill Gates

♦ I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’ – Bill Gates

♦ Life is not fair, get used to it – Bill Gates