Anything but Damn !!

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.

Intelligence Education What !!

"The difference between intelligence and an education is this-that intelligence will make you a good living".

Charles Franklin Kettering, An American inventor and the holder of 140 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947.

Dhamma for Living

"The Gift of Truth Excels all other Gifts".

By Fayan Wenyi, The Master of Zen

You Are What You Think

"It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits."

By Charles A. Jaffe, A Belarusian-American chess master, of virtually Grandmaster strength

Edgar The Economist

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)."

"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."

"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."

"If you have to forecast, forecast often."

By Edgar R. Fiedler, An American economist who served as Vice President of The Conference Board and as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1971 - 1975) during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

The Self-Organizing Economy

"In the last few years the concept of self-organizing systems - of complex system in which randomness and chaos seem spontaneously to evolve into unexpected order - has become an increasingly influential idea that links together researchers in many fields, from artificial intelligence to chemistry, from evolution to geology. For whatever reason, however, this movement has so far largely passed economic theory by. It is time to see how the new ideas can usefully be applied to that immensely complex, but indisputably self-organizing system we call the economy."

By Paul Krugman, An American economist, columnist and author

Acquire One Heart

"When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others."

By Denis Diderot, A French philosopher, art critic and writer

3 Essence of Achievement

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense".

Thomas A. Edison, An American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Wise Know None

"It is better to speak wisdom foolishly, like the saints, rather than to speak folly wisely, like the dons."

By G.K. Chesterton, One of the most influential English writers of the 20th century

Soros Mind

"I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong... I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or flight. When I make the decision, the backache goes away."

By George Soros, A Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist

Your Boss Power

"Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions."

By Fernanda Bartolme, the author of Harvard Business Review

A Rich

"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."

By W. C. Fields, An American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

Master Kung Quotes

"Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the curbs."

Confucius, AKA. "Master Kung", An esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher

Defining Economist

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

By Laurence J. Peter, An educator and hierarchiologist best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle

Always Risky

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do."

By Charles A. Jaffe, A Belarusian-American chess master, of virtually Grandmaster strength

Watson Word

“I’m no genius. I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.”

By Thomas Watson Sr., the president of IBM from 1914 to 1956.

Master The Line

"I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line."

By Andrew Carnegie, A Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist

Succeeding Your Talent

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."

By Irving Berlin, An American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history

Defining Entrepreneur

"Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual."

By An American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms

Circle of Compentence

“If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.”

By Warren Buffet, one of the world's most respected investors