A King wished to select a good Chief Minister for his Kingdom. In his court were four men with equal qualification to hold the post of the Chief Minister. He therefore decided to conduct a test to select one from amongst them for the post. One day, he called all four of them and said,… Read More »
– Courtesy The Washington Post. In Zig Ziglar’s world, the morning alarm rang on the “opportunity clock.” And “if you aren’t on fire” when you get to work, “then your wood is wet.” And you have to remember that “money’s not the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen.” And there… Read More »
Source Yashiko was a wealthy samurai warrior in ancient Japan. He cut a fine figure; his armour and sword were of the finest workmanship. His ornaments were of the finest variety: silver, copper, gold and bronze. Even the toggles on his tunic were priceless netsuke: masterfully carved figures of animals, insects, dragons and fishes, made… Read More »
Paul Tudor Jones II (born September 28, 1954) is an American businessman who founded Tudor Investment Corporation, a private asset management company and hedge fund. As of March 2014, he was estimated to have a net worth of US$4.3 billion by Forbes Magazine and ranked as the 108th richest American[3] and 345th richest in the… Read More »
While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I had one of those life-changing experiences that you hear other people talk about — the kind that sneaks up on you unexpectedly. This one occurred a mere two feet away from me. Straining to locate my friend among the passengers deplaning… Read More »
by Peter Bregman. We were 15 kayakers and three support rafts — and scouted the rapid from the right bank of the river. So far, I hadn’t been feeling myself on this trip. The water was bigger than anything I had paddled before, and now even small rapids — waves I could normally surf for… Read More »
Oseola McCarty spent a lifetime making other people look nice. Day after day, for most of her 87 years, she took in bundles of dirty clothes and made them clean and neat for parties she never attended, weddings to which she was never invited, graduations she never saw. She had quit school in the sixth… Read More »
Source ” The best way of evading the fire of hell lies in feeding the hungry , providing water to the thirsty , removing the wants of the needy and befriending the miserable .”- Sufi. In 1987, a 74-year old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to… Read More »
I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes, I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift, I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered… Read More »
In the ’70 he had reached the peak of his bodybuilding career and was about to retire. Of course back then he wasn’t as famous as in the ’80 and ’90. So, in 1976 a journalist asked him what he was planning to do after his bodybuilding career. Schwarzenegger smiled at him and calmly replied:… Read More »