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[Pantera]

Please nobody take this the wrong way. I don't always agree with this author about some of the things he has done. I only wish I had been the one that thought of it first.

BUT: I do beleive that there is some great wisdom in these (11) thoughts. They are more to the point of the real world. You only get what you work for. Set on your ass and you will not have much. Young guys have a hard time understanding what we the older generation have seen as we grew up.
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In Bill Gates' new book Business @ The Speed of Thought, he lays out eleven rules that students do not learn in high school or college, but should.

He argues that our feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set 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 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 clothes 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; they will let you try 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 their jobs.

RULE 11 - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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Believe in your self and if you have a dream then don't let someone talk you out of it. They are usually jealous of you and that they didn't come up with the idea or are too lazy to work for what they want out of life.

My Mother was a great infuence on me. She told me once that from what she had seen going through the depression that "Real estate ownership will never let you down. You can live in it cheaper than renting and if times get too bad then you can alway rent it out. Just don't ever be in debt on it any longer than necessary. Once it is paid for you will never be totally broke, no mater what the economy does."

Now those were words of wisdom from someone that was 50 yrs old at the time and had a high school education.

I would like to point out that you will learn something new, everyday for the rest of your life. You will learn much from places you would not expect and little from places that you expect much from.

Be like the sponge and asorb all you can and if it doesn't seem right to you then use your judgement. When I was first in business, I foolishly listened to my Banker tell me that I could not afford the commerical property that I wanted to buy instead of renting. He told me that I would be a fool to buy it for $80,000 when I was only paying $400 per month rent. Two years later I had to pay $103,000 for the same property. I had a offer on it, 6 years later for $400,000.

Now you expect your banker to know more about things like that than you do. I should have followed my heart and my dreams and I would have saved the extra years of rent I had to pay and would have owned the property sooner.

Like Bill Gates said "Be nice to the Nerds you may be working for one someday"

I would like to add my favorite little ditty that is posted on the wall of my office.



"There are three kinds of people in the world!

Those that MAKE things happen..!

Those that WATCH things happen..!

And those who WONDER what happened..????



After I read it, I ask myself??

WHICH one do you want to be???

I am convinced that most of the guys on here are of the first part of it that make things happen. Learn to run with that kind of person all your life and it will pay off someday.

Climbing down off my soapbox now. Hope I didn't offendend anyone? Was not mny intent.

[zoidberg]

S***, you know what, I didn't come here to argue this crap. I already hang out at 4 political boards, and argue this stuff until I want to slice my own head off. So let's relate this to cars. So..

The liberals in government have tried to destroy the auto industry in this country for decades. and by the late 1970's, they had almost accomplished it. Poniac and Oldsmobile were two potential victims, as well as Chrysler, and nobody seems to realize how close Ford came to total destruction, but let's limit this to vintage cars, which we all know the left despise. What would happen if they got their way, and all the old cars were crushed or, in the EPA's parlance, "deactivated"? The aftermarket performance and restoration market is a multi-BILLION dollar a year industry. What would happen to the economy if this industry dried up over night? The blow to this country's economy would be catastrophic. Hundred of thousands of people out of work. And it would not just effect the companies that are directly involved (i.e. Holley, Year One, Goodmark, Edelbrock, etc.), it would effect peripheral businesses as well. Can you imagine the chain reaction here? Liberals never look to the long run. Or if they do, they assign it no importance compared to the environment. Much the same as our loss of manufacturing jobs. How many plants did Chrysler operate in this country in 1970? How many have moved to Mexico and Canada in the last thirty years. Why? If the Big Three had to update all these plants every year, per EPA regulation, they would go bankrupt. So, once again, the party that truly "cares" about the working man does everything in it's power to screw him over.

Ok, now I'm officially sick of this topic.

[skierkaj]

All I have to say is, Wow, Look what I started!

This is too much for me to comprehend, so I'm just not gonna talk.

[Belair62]

OK that was real refreshing...now let's let this one fade away quickly...

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

My head is spinnin now! (not that I disagree, but, I need a Nova break)

[Jeff Murphy]

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Bush BTW has a Harvard MBA-one of the very hardest and demanding MBA programs in the entire world. Harvard takes their MBA program very seriously and will let NO ONE skate through because of connections, political views or all the money in the world.

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Much harder to get in than stay in BTW.

[Jeff Murphy]

Wow!!! I hope that was a cut and paste and you didn't have to type all that...

[Mr70]

Come on guys....Have one on me.
HAPPY <font color="green">ST. PATRICKS DAY!</font>

[Supergas990]

Marlin, your point about the importance of a good family relationship is top of the heap (can't believe I missed it). After all, if it weren't for the wonderful (and understanding) woman and family I have I certainly wouldn't be enjoying my cars.

What's that they say... "behind every good man is a better woman"?

I'm done now. Back to the Nova thread.

Blair

[skierkaj]

Yeah, I need a stiff drink.

God damn liberals-- crushing our cars. Yeah, I said it. I told you I have different views on everything, which is why I don't like to affiliate myself with a political party.

You're right, all those auto companies, and resto companies provide for an aweful lot of jobs for people, which is why I can't figure out why liberals want to do away with classic cars . . .

Probably because they think they're all smog machines.