Todays Bit of Wisdom

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it"

Bill Cosby 

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

 

"In order the succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"

Bill Cosby

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave"

Indira Gandi

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."

Dale Carnegie

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

"Look deep into nature, and then you will truly understand everything better."

Albert Einstein

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

"for every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth"

Bo Bennett

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none"

William Shakespeare

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

C.S. Lewis

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Playing Age of Empires to deal with Stress

              

              So I will be playing some strategy games tonight to cool off a busy week and yet not so productive. That’s the worst part going through a week with every intention to conquer everything that comes you way yet failing to hit every target.

              Well I will be playing age of empires tonight. Nothing like a god strategy game for geek to take out the stress.

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How do you deal with stress? I will love to hear.

Todays Bit of Wisdom

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace"

Jimi Hendrix

Apple Deserves Their Amazing Sales Despite Awful Maps and Scratched iPhone5s.

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image © apple.com

Recently, I wrote a couple of posts about Apple's recent failures in the quality of products that they design. I took some time to highlight how empty some of their statements can be. But as much as that is important it is good to note this one thing. The iphone5 will sell even more units than its current 5 million iPhone5s in it first three days.

Apple could have gotten its maps wrong and have fallen in quality of production with all those scratches, but Apple have invested enough into their brand and they will reap all the results due them., the sales figures tell the true story and that’s important.

For all those Apple haters out there, you might not like Apple but you cant stop someone from earning from his investment. Remember Apple had to climb a huge mountain called Microsoft and its partners and that took lots of dedication and hard-work, Apples current success didn’t happen overnight. They totally deserve to be the largest company in the world by market capitalization.

So if are one of those people who hate Apple because of the statements made by their fun-boys and Apple itself as a company, think again, they invested when times were hard, they laid a good foundation for their current success. So don’t hate Apple be inspired by them and learn from them, they fully deserve all the love and money they are getting.

Todays Bit of Wisdom

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

John F. Kennedy

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Todays Bit of Wisdom

"those who stand for nothing fall for anything"

Alexander Hamilton 

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

Charles Darwin

So you've read it, now ask yourself, what have you been doing the past hour and what are you going to do with the next? Now that should put things in perspective.

 I wish you a very productive day. 

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."

Niccolo Machiavelli

Its the bare bones nature of this quote that I love. Strait to the point and needs no further explanation. When we are faced with making difficult decisions and we cannot make any decision, it is usually because we are paralyzed by the fear, the fear of making mistakes the fear of failing......... 


It is at this time that you need to remember that you cannot really succeed in life without risking failure. 


If you are still having a hard time with this. Ask yourself this simple question.


Did you learn to walk without falling? I don't think you can remember that, but observe any child and you will have your answer. 

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

“A friend to all is a friend to none”

Aristotle

         I am sure you can all relate this quote. If you have lived long enough to read this post you definitely have met people who happen to be on good terms with everybody and just happen to like everyone. I am not talking about the friendly people around you but those who decide to do everything possible to please everyone around them instead of taking a stand on things that they do not agree with. They are willing to do anything to win the friendship of others for personal gain. Typically these are the people who will desert you when they realize they have nothing to personally gain from maintaining their friendship with you.

        The next time you step out take time to analyze the kind of friends you have and stick with those who are there to help you when you are in need and not those who shower you with praises when you are doing well, in-order to gain your favor. Your true friends are those who are honest with you and tell you how they truly feel about your decisions, they also are the ones who are there to encourage you during tough times.

Remember, “A friend to all is a friend to none”.  

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions”

Niccolo Machiavelli

       I must say, this is really self explanatory. You are most vulnerable when your desires alone, dictate your actions. The fact that you feel like it doesn't mean you have to do it. Stop, pause and think about what you are doing and ask yourself if its in line with your goals.  

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Today's Bit of Wisdom

“Go big or go home because it is true what do you have to lose?”

Eliza Dushku

     To really benefit from this you will have to think long and hard about the second part “What do you have to lose?”. If you didn’t realize it in order to follow in that philosophy you should be a humble person one who is not too bothered about failing publicly. Its not that public failure is a good thing but if you have a lot of pride you cant go big, you cant take any significant risk cause significant risks is usually equal to significant gains.

[Most people who are willing to take risks, take calculated risks]

     Some of you might not agree with my explanation but I will leave you with this illustration and I will ask you to think long and hard about it.

    Most people who are willing to take risks, take calculated risks meaning they came in well prepared at the same time those filled with so much pride(those who have something to lose) cannot take risks which might mean taking on some humiliation. What they do is sit back and watch others succeed. When they see the success of others their pide kicks in again and they seek to validate themselves by making attempts to gain similar achievements, but unlike the risk takers they are not prepared and do not take calculated risks. The result is they get badly burnt and never learn from their mistakes because they have something to lose.  




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Today's Bit of Wisdom

“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

Confucius

       I once heard a motivational speaker say this in another form. He said 

“its a good idea to over deliver”, 

     and that is what I will like to dwell on. Its not strange to here people talk about things they know they cannot do, fearing that being honest will cause them to loose that contract or that job. The world is filled with a lot of people lying about who they are and desperately trying to keep up appearances. I am sure you have come across such people and if you haven't probably you are the one I am talking about.

       As much as people would like to defend such behavior, over delivering is a better way to go about life. As much as possible think about doing more than what you said you were going to do. There are times where it helps to reach for goals that are bigger than you and we can talk about that in another blog post but using that strategy 24/7 will certainly set you back. As much as possible when you are working with people especially in any kind of business it is better to set a realistic target and then plan towards doing better than the target you set. This strategy will win you more friends, customers and certainly more business. Why? Because people would tend to trust you more and more.

     I don't think I have to go any further in convincing you to integrate this in your overall strategy for succeeding life.  




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Today's Bit of Wisdom

“Adopt the pace of Nature: Her secret is patience.”

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Patience is like wine, it gets better with time. In today's fast paced world of instant gratification, it is difficult to tell someone to have patient when making decisions but I have come to realize that in life the decisions that matter the most, are those that require patience to reap the best results. If you are a value investor you would know this. Making decisions that only take into account the short term future usually end in disaster. You must have patience if you really want the most out of life. 

       So, slow it down, take sometime to reflect on what your long term future should look like then make your decisions. Like wine, the results of good decisions get better with time and you will need patience to get the best out of life. 

Nothing really important comes fast, it will always require time and patience.  

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