Beautiful Piece of Advice

Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare it solely define you (My mom used to write on my birthday card). Our past is our truth, not our prison. We all have the permission to change.... and we can support and grant the same to others as they grow. - Kate Cole CEO…

Words of Wisdom by Vinod Khosla

Some I liked It doesn’t matter what your probability of failure is. If there’s a 90% chance of failure, there’s a 10% chance of changing the world. I have a surprising perspective that is almost nothing that is not open to technology innovation. We are now in an economy of ideas. If you build a…

Quote Time, Sept 2013

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood....     Jeff Bezos A degree of foolishness is essential to entrepreneurship......    Vinod Khosla The more diverse your education, the more likely you will learn how to learn......    Vinod Khosla @ MIT Those who appear to be liberal evoke even more suspicion than those who…

Some Good Advice from Warren Buffet

Never Depend on a single income, make investments to create a second source. If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. Do not save what is left after spending,  but spend what is left after saving. Never test the depth of a river with both feet.…

Thomas Jefferson, His Life and some Quotable Quotes

Some facts of Thomas Jefferson's life  from a forwarded email.  Strongly felt these facts and some quotable quotes need to be captured for future reference. Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped. At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor. At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.…

Quotes this Week : 11-05-10

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men"  - Charles De Gaulle "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit" - Aristotle "Life is what happens, while you're busy making other plans" ~ John Lennon

Quotes This Week : 20-02-2010

"It is dangerous to be right on a subject on which the established authorities are wrong." -- Voltaire (via Asit) With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Education's purpose is to replace an…

Quotes this week 10/12/2009

(via Asit Wagle) Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get one round to play.... Ben Hogan. Today is human rights day .... Gandhi perceived that freedom could not be sustained without fighting against poverty…

Quotes this Week 28-07-09

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful but necessary... to be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.... JRD Tata It is not down in any map; true places never are.... Herman…

Good Quotes this Week : 21-07-09

Uncertainty is the only Certainty in Golf... Jeev Milka Singh on Tiger missing the cut and 59 year old Watson winning the British Open. If you are not living on the Edge you are taking too much space... Asit Wagle's email signature The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man…