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The deepest of your wounds come from your most loved ones—

 

 

 

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Famous quotes of Dhirubhai Ambani..: From beginning Dhirubhai was seen in high-regard. His success in the petro-chemical business and his story of rags to riches made him a cult figure in the minds of Indian people. As a quality of business leader he was also a motivator. He gave few public speeches but the words he spoke are still remembered for their value. • “” With the force of 3million investors RIL will reap the title “World’s Biggest Company” *”Tax is for the poor or the stupid people.” *”I am deaf to the word “no”.” • “Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.” • “Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly” • “Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India .” • “You do not require an invitation to make profits.” • “If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.” • “Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.” • “Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.” • “Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth” • “We bet on people.” • “Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.” • “Don’t give up, courage is my conviction.” • “We cannot change our Rulers, but we can change the way they Rule Us.”

Azim Premji: ‘Take charge of your career destiny’

 

 

Inspiring excerpts from the address by Azim Premji , founder, Wipro , at IIT Delhi’s convocation ceremony.

The funny thing about life is that you realise the value of something only when it begins to leave you. As my hair turned from black, to salt and pepper and finally salt without the pepper, I have begun to realise the enthusiasm and excitement of youth. At the same time, I have begun to truly appreciate some of the lessons I have learnt along the way. As you embark on your careers, I would like to share them with you. I am hoping that you will find them as useful as I have.

The world you are entering is in many ways very different now from what it was when I began my career. It was the late sixties and India [ Images ] still depended on other countries for something as basic as food. We aroused sympathy, not admiration whenever we went overseas. Recently, someone told me, that when visitors came to India then, they came to see what they could do for India. Now, they come to see what India can do for them. As a hopeful Indian, I look at our country as one which is rich in ethnic and cultural diversity and one that has an effective, secular democracy which will help us build an enduring society.

Lesson 1: Take charge
This was the first thought that came to me, when over four decades ago, I stepped into Wipro factory at Amalner. I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially, leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself. When it comes to choosing your careers, you have to take charge of your own destiny.

Lesson 2: Earn your happiness
The second lesson I have learnt is that a rupee earned is of far more value than five found. In fact, what is gifted or inherited follows the old rule of come easy, go easy. I guess we only know the value of what we have if we have struggled to earn it.

Lesson 3: Nothing succeeds like failure
The third lesson I have learnt is no one bats a hundred every time. Life has many challenges. You win some and lose some. You must enjoy winning. But do not let it go to the head. The moment it does, you are already on your way to failure. And if you do encounter failure along the way, treat it as an equally natural phenomenon. The important thing is, when you lose, do not lose the lesson.

Lesson 4: Nothing fails like success
The fourth lesson I have learnt is the importance of humility. There is a thin line of difference between confidence and arrogance. Confident people are always open to learn. A recent survey of executives in Europe showed that the single most important quality needed for leadership success was the willingness to learn from any situation. Arrogance on the other hand stops learning. It comes with a feeling that one knows all that needs to be known and has done all that needs to be done.

Lesson 5: There has to be a better way
Partly as a corollary to what I have just said, we must remember that no matter how well we do something there has to be a better way! Excellence is not a destination but a journey. Creativity and innovation sometimes need inspiration from other disciplines. It is probably not a chance that Einstein’s interest in music was as much as his interest in Physics. Bertrand Russell was as much a mathematician as a philosopher. Excellence and creativity go hand in hand.

Lesson 6: Respond, not react
There is a world of difference between the two and in terms of success and failure. The difference is that the mind comes in between responding and reacting. When we respond, we evaluate with a calm mind and do whatever is most appropriate. We are in control of our actions. When we react, we are still doing what the other person wants us to do.

Lesson 7: Remain physically active
It is easy to take health for granted when you are young. I have found that exercise not only improves the quality of time but also reduces the time you need for sleep. The truth is that stress will only increase in a global world. You must have your own mechanism to deal with it.

Lesson 8: Never compromise on your core values
Mahatma Gandhiji often said that you must open the windows of your mind, but you must not be swept off your feet by the breeze. One must define what you stand for. This is not difficult. But values lie, not in the words used to describe them, as much as in the simple acts. And that is the hard part. Like someone said, “I could not hear what you said because what you did was coming out far too loud”.

Lesson 9: Play to win
Playing to win brings out the best in us and in our teams. It brings out the desire to stretch, to achieve that which seems beyond our grasp. However, it is not about winning at any cost. It is not about winning every time. It is not about winning at the expense of others. It is about innovating all the time. It is a continuous endeavour to do better than last time.

Lesson 10: Give back to society
All of us have a collective social responsibility towards doing our bit to address them. Of all the challenges, the key to me is education. We have a paradoxical situation, where on the one hand we have jobs chasing scarce talent and on the other, rampant unemployment and poverty. The only way to bridge these two ends of the pole is by providing quality education that is accessible by all.

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Crazy world Economy

 

Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also, Japan exports far more than it imports. Has an annual trade surplus of over 100 billions. Yet Japanese economy is considered weak, even collapsing. Americans spend, save little. Also US imports more than it exports. Has an annual trade deficit of over $400 billion. Yet, the American economy is considered strong and trusted to get stronger. But where from do Americans get money to spend? They borrow from Japan , China and even India . Virtually others save for the US to spend. Global savings are mostly invested in US, in dollars. India itself keeps its foreign currency assets of over $50 billion in US securities. China has sunk over $160 billion in US securities. Japan ‘s stakes in US securities is in trillions. Result: The US has taken over $5 trillion from the world. So, as the world saves for the US – It’s The Americans who spend freely. Today, to keep the US consumption going, that is for the US economy to work, other countries have to remit $180 billion every quarter, which is $2 billion a day, to the US ! A Chinese economist asked a neat question. Who has invested more, US in China , or China in US? The US has invested in China less than half of what China has invested in US. The same is the case with India . We have invested in US over $50 billion. But the US has invested less than $20 billion in India . Why the world is after US? The secret lies in the American spending, that they hardly save. In fact they use their credit cards to spend their future income. That the US spends is what makes it attractive to export to the US . So US imports more than what it exports year after year. The result: The world is dependent on US consumption for its growth. By its deepening culture of consumption, the US has habituated the world to feed on US consumption. But as the US needs money to finance its consumption, the world provides the money. It’s like a shopkeeper providing the money to a customer so that the customer keeps buying from the shop. If the customer will not buy, the shop won’t have business, unless the shopkeeper funds him. The US is like the lucky customer. And the world is like the helpless shopkeeper financier. Who is America ‘s biggest shopkeeper financier? Japan of course. Yet it’s Japan which is regarded as weak. Modern economists complain that Japanese do not spend, so they do not grow. To force the Japanese to spend, the Japanese government exerted itself, reduced the savings rates, even charged the savers. Even then the Japanese did not spend (habits don’t change, even with taxes, do they?). Their traditional postal savings alone is over $1.2 trillion, about three times the Indian GDP. Thus, savings, far from being the strength of Japan , has become its pain. Hence, what is the lesson? That is, a nation cannot grow unless the people spend, not save. Not just spend, but borrow and spend. Dr. Jagdish Bhagwati, the famous Indian-born economist in the US , told Manmohan Singh that Indians wastefully save. Ask them to spend, on imported cars and, seriously, even on cosmetics! This will put India on a growth curve. This is one of the reason for MNC’s coming down to India , seeing the consumer spending. ‘Saving is sin, and spending is virtue.’ But before you follow this Neo Economics, get some fools to save so that you can borrow from them and spend !!!     __,_._,___

 

always believe in you

Dedicated to my father

BAAP*
Ek Aisi hasti hain……!!!

Maa ka muqaam toh beshaik apni jagay hain per Walid kabhi kuch kam nahi….!!!

maa kay qadmow main janath hain..
per baap janath ka darwaza hain…

ager darwaza na khula toh ander kaisay jowgay…!!!!

Maa k liye to sab Dua karwate hai,
Kabhi kisi ne WALID k liye bhi Dua Mangi hai.?
“Maa ka Piyar to sab ko nazar ata hai,
“Kabhi BAP ka Piyar kisi ne Mahsoos kiya.?
“Jo garmi ho ya sardi apne bachon ki roti rozi ki fikar me pareshan rahta hai.
“Aao Aaj sab mil k us Azeem hasti k liye bhi Dua kare…..
“Ay”ALLAH”PAK Himmat or Taqat ata farma,
“Un WALID ko jo apne bachchon k liye Bohot Mehnat karte hai.
“Maghfirt farma UN ko,
Jo is Duniya se chale gaye hai.
“AUR Jo Zinda hai Unko Lambi Umar Sehat-E-dil Kamiyabi or be inteha
Khushiyan ata farma.”AMEEN”

BE INDIAN

This is worth a read. Who ever put this together (is no fool and has the right vision about India) makes sense and is an eye opener.

I remember Brits in our own country India. Indians use to say YES SIR joining their hands and bowing to them.

What for? Because of the white skin? No wonder Brits ruled the world and took us as fools? India would have been Britain if our ancestors were smart enough.
Thought Provoking:

I would like to sum up our performance in the 20th century in one sentence. Indians have succeeded in countries ruled by whites, but failed in their own. This outcome would have astonished leaders of our independence movement.

They declared Indians were kept down by white rule and could flourish only under self-rule. This seemed self-evident. The harsh reality today is that Indians are succeeding brilliantly in countries ruled by whites, but failing in India. They are flourishing in the USA and Britain.

But those that stay in India are pulled down by an outrageous system that fails to reward merit or talent, fails to allow people and businesses to grow, and keeps real power with leaders, politicians, and assorted manipulator. Once Indians go to white-ruled countries, they soar and conquer summits once occupied only by whites.

Rono Dutta has become head of United Airlines, the biggest airline in the world ( Fleet size -705 Aircraft and 381 destinations world wide). Had he stayed in India, he would have no chance in Indian Airlines.

Even if the top job there was given to him by some godfather, politicians and trade unionists would have ensured that he could never run it like United Airlines. Vikram Pundit was head of Citigroup until recently, which operates Citibank, one of the largest banks in the world.

Rana Talwar has become head of Standard Chartered Bank, one of the biggest multinational banks in Britain, while still in his 40s. Had he been in India, he would perhaps be a local manager in the State Bank, taking orders from politicians to give loans to politically favored clients.

Lakhsmi Mittal has become the biggest steel baron in the world, with steel plants in the US, Kazakhstan, Germany, Mexico, Trinidad and Indonesia. India’s socialist policies reserved the domestic steel industry for the public sector. So Lakhsmi Mittal went to Indonesia to run his family’s first steel plant there. Once freed from the shackles of India, he conquered the world.

Subhash Chandra of Zee TV has become a global media king, one of the few to beat Rupert Murdoch. He could never have risen had he been limited to India, which decreed a TV monopoly for Indian company, Doordarshan. But technology came to his aid: satellite TV made it possible for him to target India from Hong Kong. Once he escaped Indian rules and soil, he soared.

You may not have heard of 48-year old Gururaj Deshpande. His communications company, Sycamore, is currently valued by the US stock market at over $30 billion, making him perhaps one of the richest Indians in the world. Had he remained in India, he would probably be a politician in the Department of Telecommunications.

Arun Netravali has become president of Bell Labs, one of the biggest research and development centers in the world with 30,000 inventions and several Nobel Prizes to its credit. Had he been in India, he would probably be struggling in the middle cadre of Indian Telephone Industries. Silicon Valley alone contains over 100,000 Indian millionaires.

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi has been the CEO of PepsiCo Inc. since 2006, a Fortune 500 company. Sabeer Bhatia invented Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft for $ 400 million. Victor Menezes, born in Pune in 1949, was number two in Citibank until late last year. Shailesh Mehta is CEO of Providian, a top US financial services company. Also at or near the top are Rakesh Gangwal of US Air, Jamshed Wadia of Arthur Andersen, and Aman Mehta of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.

In Washington DC, the Indian CEO High Tech Council has no less than 200 members, all high tech-chiefs. While Indians have soared, India has stagnated. At independence India was the most advanced of all colonies, with the best prospects.

Today with a GNP per head of $370, it occupies a lowly 177th position among 209 countries of the world. But poverty is by no means the only or main problem. India* *ranks near the bottom in the United Nation’s Human Development Index, but high up in Transparency International’s Corruption Index.

The politician-raj brought in by socialist policies is only one reason for India ‘s failure. The more sordid reason is the rule-based society we inherited from the British Raj is today in tatters. Instead money, muscle and influence matter most.

At independence we were justly proud of our politicians. Today, we regard them as scoundrels and criminals. They have created a jungle of laws in the holy name of socialism, and used these to line their pockets and create patronage networks. No influential crook suffers. The Mafia flourish unhindered because they have political links.

The sons of police officers believe they have a license to rape and kill. Talent cannot take you far amid such bad governance.

We are reverting to our ancient feudal system where no rules applied to the powerful. The British Raj brought in abstract concepts of justice for all, equality before the law. These were maintained in the early years of independence. But sixty years later, citizens wail that India is a lawless land where no rules are obeyed.

I have heard of an IAS probationer at the Delhi training academy pointing out that in India before the British came, making money and distributing favors to relatives was not considered a perversion of power, it was the very rationale of power. A feudal official had a duty to enrich his family and caste.

Then the British came and imposed a new ethical code on officials. But, he asked, why should we continue to choose British customs over Indian ones now that we are independent?

The lack of transparent rules, properly enforced, is a major reason why talented Indians cannot rise in India. A second reason is the politician-raj, which remains intact despite supposed liberalization. But once talented Indians go to rule-based societies in the west, they take off. In those societies all people play by the same rules, all have freedom to innovate without being strangled by regulations.

This, then, is why Indians succeed in countries ruled by Non-Indians, and fail in their own.

WIFE DOESNT WORK

Wife DOES NOT WORK !!!

Conversation between a Husband (H) and a Psychologist (P):

P : What do you do for a living Mr Bandy ?
H : I work as an Accountant in a Bank.

P : Your Wife ?
H : She doesn’t work. She’s a Housewife only.

P : Who makes breakfast for your family in the morning?
H : My Wife, because she doesn’t work.

P : At what time does your wife wake up for making breakfast?
H : She wakes up at around 5 am because she cleans the house first before making breakfast.

P : How do your kids go to school?
H : My wife takes them to school, because she doesn’t work.

P : After taking your kids to school, what does she do ?
H : She goes to the market, then goes back home for cooking and laundry. You
know, she doesn’t work.

P : In the evening, after you go back home from office, what do you do ?
H : Take rest, because I’m tired due to all day work.

P : What does your wife do then ?
H : She prepares meals, serving our kids, preparing meals for me and cleaning the dishes, cleaning the house, then taking kids to bed.

Who do you think works more, from the story above ???

The daily routines of your wives commence from early morning to late night.
 
That is called ‘DOESN’T WORK’ ??!!

Yes, Being Home-makers do not need Certificate of Study, even High Position,
but their ROLE/PART is very important!

Appreciate your wives. Because their sacrifices are unaccountable.

This should be a reminder and reflection for all of us to understand and
appreciate each others roles.

All about a WOMAN ….

* When she is quiet, millions of things are running in her mind.

* When she stares at you, she is wondering why she loves you so much in spite of being taken for granted.

* When she says I will stand by you, she will stand by you like a rock.

Never hurt her or take her wrong or for granted…

Forward to every woman to make her smile and to every man to make him
realise a woman’s worth…!!!

7 SUPERB SENTENCES

Shakespeare.
“Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because U May Win The Game But The Risk Is That U Will Surely Lose The Person For A Life Time”.

 Napoleon.
 “The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people!”

 Einstein.
 “I am thankful to all those who said NO to me It’s because of them I did it myself.”

 Abraham Lincoln.
 “If friendship is ur weakest point then U are the strongest person in the world.”

 Shakespeare.
 “Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It”.

 William Arthur.
 “Opportunities Are Like Sunrises, If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them”.

 Hitler.
 “When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn’t Follow You.”

 Shakespeare.
 “Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent. So When Your Value Increases Keep Quiet.

Brian tracy

“People say: Time pass away – Ah! No – Time stays, people pass away!”

 

Every one in the world, in East or West, whether he or she is living in a developing country or in developed country, rich or poor, has one thing in common.

Every one has got twenty-four 24 hours in a day!

However, some people achieve more and more in the same 24 hours and some people are unable to achieve much. Why? Is it due to time management or self-management?

Ideas from the book: “Eat that Frog – 21 Great ways to stop procrastinating and Get more done in less time”;  — by Brian Tracy (www.briantracy.com)

Here, the FROG refers to the task which seems most difficult one and we are not willing to do it, though we know that we HAVE to do it. So – EAT THAT FROG i.e. do ‘that’ dreadful task first!

A great formula from the book is six P formula. What is it?

Proper – Prior –  Planning –  Prevents –  Poor –  Performance. 

To begin with, a person is required to ‘set the table’ first. How? Very simple acts to read but difficult to do:

1. Determine the ‘goals’ – What do I want to do?

2. Write the goals down – Pick a paper and pen and start writing

3. Dead line please – Some one defined a goal as “a dream with a dead line”; If there is no target date, it is difficult to track performance and ensure that the task really gets done.

4. Prepare a list of all tasks which are required to done to ensure that the goal is achieved

5. Act on plan immediately and keep on moving – set some reward for yourself once the task is accomplished.

One of the tools provided by Brian Tracy in this book is ‘ABCDE’ categorization of the work which we do i.e. all tasks which we perform on daily basis should be categorized as A, B, C, D or E.

A – category task – considered as something that is very important. It is something that we must do. It is something that carries with it serious consequences (e.g. some task given by our Boss!).

B – category task– a task that we should do but has only mild consequences. These items are the tadpoles of our life. We should make it a habit to never do a “B” task when there is still an “A” task left undone.

C – category task is denoted as something that would be nice to do. Whether or not we do it, there are no consequences at all. This sort of task has no effect at all on our work or personal life.

D- category task– is referred to as something we can delegate to someone else.

E-category task – is something that we can get rid of altogether and it will not make any real difference nor pose any serious effects.

Take time to think — 
Am I trying to do every thing at the same time and as a result, not getting any thing done? Do I have any priority of my work? Am I doing with work which should not be done at all, some thing from E category? Am I doing some work which can be delegated, some thing from D category?