Life Reloaded!!!

Steve Jobs at his Best It is a really nice speech from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. He talks of about 3 incidents in his life that he thinks made all the difference. Do watch it. I loved it!!!

This I got from my friend Harshad Telang: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Samuel Butler

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." - George Jackson

My friend has told me one of his observation which I want to share with you, "Being more ambitious is more dangerous than being not ambitious." Its not that I completely agree with him, but I will remember this for rest of my life.

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."                                                                                                                                               - Burt Bacharach

“As a successful venture capitalist, Peter Morgan Kash has raised zillions of dollars and started up dozens of successful biopharma companies. He has also lectured on entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of Business and Japan’s Nihon University. One of the earliest lessons he learnt was that there is no success without failure. He started working on Wall Street at the age of 21 and by 30 made a sizeable fortune. “But in no time, I lost virtually all of it,” he writes in his book, Make Your Own Luck: Success Tactics You Won’t Learn in Business School. “What made the loss particularly difficult was that my setback was due entirely to my own poor judgement. No one had squandered my success except me.” As it turned out, this period became one of the richest and most educational times of the New York businessman’s life. He went on to have several successes. “But I do believe that I would never have had them, if I had not failed so spectacularly early on,” he told this writer recently, dur...

"The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders."

This is not the usual philosophical one- "Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done." -Fred Allen

For people who use AIRTEL but still call Dolphin "pathetic", this one is for you: "Jinke ghar shishe ke hote hai woh dusaron ke ghar pe patthar nahi pheka karate :P "

If sex is a natural phenomenon then why so many books to tell how to? - Hindustan Times

Following are the thoughts of one of my best buddies which I think will help me in this difficult period........ 1. If there is a will, there is a way. 2. You can take opinions from others, but you have to make your own decisions. Because nobody knows you more than you do. 3. If you work hard (smartness implied), you WILL get your dues.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

"U learn in life when u lose"

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar"

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."                                                                                     - Cullen Hightower

I am not a midnight's child or a child of partition. Actually, I was born the year after Nehru died. In a sense, I represent the post-Nehruvian generation, those for whom the freedom struggle was confined to Amar Chitra Katha comics and history textbooks that valorised our national icons. And yet, i must confesss there is something about 60 years of Indian independence that fills me with a sense of pride and nostalgia.Pride in being an Indian, nostalgia for what it must have been like in those heady days ahead of August 15th 1947. Looking at sepia-tinted images of Rajpath on the day India achieved freedom, one can imagine the frenzied crowds, the sense of utter joy at being a free nation. We take freedom for granted today.We couldn't have been quite so bindaas 60 years ago. That perhaps is our greatest achievement, creating a sense of uninhibited freedom among millions (spit where you want, vote for whom you wish!).Few gave this country a chance of survival 60 years ago. The pr...