Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
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.
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. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.
You will NOT 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.
Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
