Monday, June 15, 2009

Andrew Carnegie - The road to business

A man who wants to go ahead must go beyond the range of his special department. He must attract attention.

There will always be boon in brains. So cultivate that crop, for if you grow any amout of that commodity, here is your best market and you can't overstock it. The more brains you have to sell the higher price you can demand.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket is all wrong. I tell you to put all your eggs in one basket but never lose sight of that basket.


Edison

The brain that isn't used rusts. The brain that is used responds.

The man who does not make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

An executive is a master of his time. He systemizes his minutes.



J.C.Penny



Unorganized work without an eye on the goal is generally futile


Leadership is a quality that transforms a group of people into a team.

Nothings leads as well as example.

Great leaders always take responsibility. They never pass the buck. They are the ones it stops at.


Ben Franklin

A sleeping fox catches no poultry

Diligence is the mother of good luck

Plough deep while the lazy sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep.

Drive your business and let it not drive you

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle

if we are industrious we shall never starve, for hunger looks at a working man's house but dares not enter.

The second vice is to lie, the first one is to run on debt.

A borrower is a slave to the lender

"Woeful Wails" - My Dad's account of what happened in 1989 at Srinagar, Kashmir

A Shiver, a shudder goes down my spine To have lost what once was mine The merciless devils who strode the streets With guns pointing at u...