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happiest

"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. ."

- Samuel Goldwyn

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Carly Fiorina

Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University. She holds a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School
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Truth

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

- Tom Clancy

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Philip Kotler

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Kellogg was voted the "Best Business School" for six years in Business Week's survey of U.S. business schools. It is also rated as the "Best Business School for the Teaching of Marketing". Professor Kotler has significantly contributed to Kellogg's success through his many years of research and teaching there.

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Truth

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

- Lenin (1870 - 1924)

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Robert Kaplan

As an academic Robert Kaplan has focused his research primarily on two core areas. ABC (Activity Based Costing) and the Balanced Scorecard. For over the last 20 years he has served as the as a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School which is complimented by successful results at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) and Carnegie-Mellon University.

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Enemies

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. "

- William Blake (1757 - 1827)

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Deepak Chopra

Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, M.D. continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1995, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions.

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Experience

"Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills."

- Minna Thomas Antrim

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Ken Blanchard

As a speaker Ken captivates his audience whilst presenting a great deal of warmth, humour and entertainment. He delivers each message by engaging each and every delegate, by having a gift of making the difficult concepts easy to understand. During 2006 Global Leaders are pleased to be bringing Ken Blanchard to Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Singapore.

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Patience

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

- George Jackson (1941 - 1971)

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C.K. Prahalad

C.K. Prahalad, the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, specialises in corporate strategy.

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Questions

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

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Microfinance

Microfinance is a field that focuses on providing a variety of financial services to the poor. Typically, individuals with very little income experience great difficulty in taking advantage of things like savings opportunities and insurance products. Often, low incomes go hand-in-hand with a lack of collateral and credit, making it difficult for the poor to obtain loans, invest, and enjoy insurance protection. Microfinance seeks to eliminate this problem, providing microinsurance, microloans, and other financial services to low-income people.

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Understand

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."

- Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)

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Mutual Fund

A mutual fund is a group of investors operating through a fund manager to purchase a diverse portfolio of stocks or bonds. There are myriad kinds of mutual funds, each with its own goals and methodologies. Whether or not a mutual fund is a good investment is a matter of much public debate, with many claiming they are excellent for the average person, and others saying they are simply a poor way to invest.

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Thought

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"

- Sir Winston Churchill

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Rex Smith

Rex Smith (born September 19, 1955, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American actor and singer.


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Thought

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"

- Oscar Wilde

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Shabana Azmi

Shabana Azmi (Hindi: शबाना आज़मी, born 18 September 1950 at New Delhi, India) is one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema. She is a film actress as well as a social activist, and her performances in films in a variety of genres have generally earned her praises and awards.

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Thought

"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish"

- Albert Einstein

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Marquis de Condorcet

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method......


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Motivation

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."

- Plato

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Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya KCIE (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಮೋಕ್ಷಗುಂಡಂ ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ್ವರಯ್ಯ) (other spellings include Visvesvaraya, Visweswaraiah, Vishweshwariah and Vishweshwarayya; popularly known as Sir M. V.) (September 15, 1860–April 12, 1962), was an eminent Indian engineer and statesman. He is a recipient of the Indian republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was also knighted by the British for his myriad contributions to the public good. Every year, 15th September is celebrated as the Engineer's Day in India in his memory.

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Gowri Habba

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

- Ken Hakuta

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Gowri Habba

Gowri Habba is celebrated a day before Ganesh Chaturthi. It is a significant festival in parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Tamil Nadu. Goddess Gowri the mother of Lord Ganesha and wife of Lord Shiva is worshiped through out India for her ability to bestow upon her devotees courage & power. Hindu belief has it that Goddess Gowri is the very incarnation of Aadhi Shakthi Mahamaya. She is the Shakthi of Lord Shiva. It is believed that on Thadige, or the thirteenth day of the month of Bhaadrapada Goddess Gowri comes home like any married girl comes to her parent’s house. The next day Lord Ganesha, her son comes as if to take her back to Kailasa.

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Education

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices."

- Laurence J. Peter

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Ram Jethmalani

Ram Jethmalani (born September 10, 1923) is an Indian politician and a famous and controversial criminal lawyer.

He was born at Shikharpur in Sind (now in Pakistan), in 1923.

Jethmalani is considered a maverick, and has many distinctions to his credit. He started life very early, and after being given a triple-promotion in school, and after completing his LL.B. at the age of 17, he was too young to join the Bar. But, after persuading the Chief Justice of Sind to pass a special resolution to relax the rules, he entered the profession with a vengeance.

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Enthusiasm

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

- Vince Lombardi

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Mallikarjun Mansur

Mallikarjun Mansur (Kannada:ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ ಮನ್ಸೂರ್, Devanagari:मल्लिकार्जुन मन्सूर) (1910-1992) was one of greatest examples of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana of Hindustani Khayal singing.

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War

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
- Ray Bradbury

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Patriot Day

In the United States, Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year, designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)", "September 11th", or some variation thereof.
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War

"War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
- Thomas Mann

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K. S. Ranjitsinhji

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, GCSI, GBE (10 September 1872–2 April 1933) was an Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team. He also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, and county cricket for Sussex. His name was very often shortened to Ranji and he was also known as the "Black Prince of Cricketers".

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Time

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."

- Norman Ford

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Bhartendu Harish Chandra

Bhartendu Harish Chandra was born on 09 September 1850 in a distinguished and opulent Agarwal family of Varanasi. From his grand- father and father he inherited material prosperity, Vaishnava traditions and literary talents. Harish Chandra showed love for devotional music and aptitude for composing poetry even at the age of five.
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History

"Some people make headlines while others make history."

- Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a Bollywood playback singer, although she has a much wider repertoire. Her career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over 950 Bollywood movies[2] and sold many records.[3] She is the sister of the equally accomplished Lata Mangeshkar.

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Laziness

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

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What is a Remortgage?

A remortgage is a process that replaces an existing mortgage loan with a new loan from a different lender. The new lender repays the existing mortgage debt to the original loan provider. The borrower is then left with just one mortgage loan, repayable to the new lender.

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Questioning

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

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Sarat Chandra Bose

Sarat Chandra Bose (September 1889 - February 20, 1950) was a barrister and Indian freedom fighter. He was the elder brother of Subhash Chandra Bose.

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Teacher

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.. "

- Henry Ford


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Indian Teacher's Day History

History and origin of Teacher's Day in India is related to Dr. Radhakrishnan. Read further to know about Indian Teachers' Day history.
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God

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

- Albert Einstein

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Krishna Janmashtami

Krishna Janmashtami (Devanagari कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी) , also known as "Krishnashtami", "Gokulashtami", "Ashtami Rohini", "Srikrishna Jayanti", "Sree Jayanthi" or sometimes merely as "Janmashtami", is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu.

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Success

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe


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What are Futures?

Futures are a financial derivative known as a forward contract. A futures contract obligates the seller to provide a commodity or other asset to the buyer at an agreed-upon date. Futures are widely traded for commodities such as sugar, coffee, oil and wheat, as well as for financial instruments such as stock market indexes, government bonds and foreign currencies.

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Worries

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.. "

- Henry Ford


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Myron S. Scholes

I was born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada on July 1, 1941. My father had ventured to Timmins, a relatively prosperous gold-mining region, to practice dentistry during the depression. My mother and her uncle established a chain of small department stores in and around Timmins. The death of her uncle resulted in a family dispute, my first exposure to agency and contracting problems. To my benefit, my mother then devoted her time to raising her two sons. At the age of ten, we moved 500 miles south to Hamilton, Ontario
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Worries

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. "

- Anatole France

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (September 1, 1896–November 14, 1977) was the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly known as the "Hare Krishnas"). Born as Abhay Charan De, in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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