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Finance

"I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.."

- Bill Gates

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Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre(Kannada:ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೆಯ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ) (January 31, 1896 - 21 October 1981) was amongst the most famous of Kannada poets of the Navodaya Period and important contributor to the field of Marathi literature. Praised as varakavi,viz., gifted poet, he was the second person among seven recipients[1] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honour conferred in India. He wrote under the pen-name of Ambikatanayadatta. He also hold the title Karnataka kula Thilaka conferred by Udupi Adamaru. He was conferred Padma Shri by Government of India
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Hard Work

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, IAST: mohandās karamcand gāndhī, IPA: /moɦənd̪as kərəmtʃənd̪ gand̪ʱi/ (October 2 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi

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Life

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) is a shooter who won India's first individual silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. His event was the Men's Double Trap. In 2005 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne, he was the member of the winning team in the double trap event. He won the gold in the individual and team events in Men's double trap at the 2005 Asian Clay Shooting championships at Bangkok. The gold in the individual event was the third consecutive one for Rathore at the annual events after the ones in 2003 and 2004, thus constituting a hat trick.

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Experience

"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian author and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. The freedom fighter was popularly known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of the Punjab). He was also the founder Punjab National Bank and Lakshmi Insurance Company

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Goal

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."

- Wayne Dyer

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh (Hindi: हिमाचल प्रदेश, IPA: [/hɪmaːtʃəl prəd̪eːʃ/]) is a state in the north-west of India. Himachal Pradesh is spread over square kilometres ( sq mi)[1] and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on north, Punjab on west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on south, Uttarakhand on south-east and by Tibet area of China on the east. The literal meaning of Himachal Pradesh is Land of snowy mountains.

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Luck

"I've always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got."

- Alan Bond

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Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai (born January 24, 1943/1945, Punjab, India) is an Indian director. His most notable films include Karma (1986), Saudagar (1991), Khalnayak (1993), Pardes (1997) and Taal (1999).

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Courage

"We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears."

- John McCain

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose, (Bengali: সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু, (January 23, 1897 – presumably August 18, 1945 [although this is disputed]note), generally known as Netaji (lit. "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly respected leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj.

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Problems

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

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Shah Jahan

Shahabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. Persian: شاه ‌جهان), January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in the Indian Subcontinent from 1628 until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World." He was the fifth Mughal ruler after Babur, Humayun, Akbar, and Jahangir.

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Problems

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

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Shah Jahan

Shahabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. Persian: شاه ‌جهان), January 5, 1592 – January 22, 1666) was the ruler of the Mughal Empire in the Indian Subcontinent from 1628 until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World." He was the fifth Mughal ruler after Babur, Humayun, Akbar, and Jahangir.

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Success

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."

- Sven Eriksson

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Elisha Gray

Born into a Quaker family in Barnesville, Ohio, Gray was brought up on a farm. He spent several years at Oberlin College where he experimented with electrical devices. Oberlin is a town southwest of Cleveland, Ohio. Although Gray was not a graduate of Oberlin College, he taught electricity and science at Oberlin and built laboratory equipment for Oberlin science departments.

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Business

"A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
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- John D. Rockefeller

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Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He was the second person to have set foot on the Moon, after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

God

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

- Mother Teresa

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) [1] was an American-born chess Grandmaster, an Icelandic citizen at the time of his death, who became famous as a teenager for his chess-playing ability, and in 1972 became the only American to win the official World Chess Championship, defeating defending champion Boris Spassky in a match that was widely publicized as a Cold War battle pitting a single American against the Soviet system. In 1975, he refused to defend his title when FIDE, the international chess federation, would not accept all his conditions. He was stripped of his title as a result. Fischer is often referred to as a candidate for the greatest chess player of all time.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Time

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

- Charles Darwin

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Ivan Petrovsky

Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, also Petrovskii (Russian: Иван Георгиевич Петровский) (January 18, 1901, Sevsk – January 15, 1973, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to solution of Hilbert's 19-th and 16th problems. He also worked on the boundary value problem, probability, and topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.

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Failing

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur Clarke


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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most important and influental Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and a musical instrument. He formed both the first public lending library and fire department in America.

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Failing

"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."

- Winston Churchill


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What are Royalties?

Royalties are sums paid to a creator or a participant in an artistic work, based on individual sales of the work. In order to receive royalties, the work must generally receive a copyright or patent. As well, often the amount of royalties received is negotiated by contract.

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Winning

"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing."

- Tony Blair

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Narain Karthikeyan

Kumar Ram Narain Karthikeyan (Tamil: நாராயண் கார்த்திகேயன, born January 14, 1977, Coimbatore, India) is a Formula One and A1GP driver. He made his debut in 2005 with the Jordan team. He is currently a WilliamsF1 test driver.

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Ambition

"I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world."

- Azim Premji

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Michael Caruso

Michael (Mike) Caruso is chief operating officer for ExcellerateHRO, with overall responsibility for all aspects of the organization. His leadership of strategic initiatives and operations includes global marketing and planning, regional sales and delivery, service and quality assurance, and product portfolio
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Human Resource Management: An Experiential Approach by H.Jphn Bernardin

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Forgiveness

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- M.K.Gandhi

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda (Sanskrit: स्वामि विवेकानन्द, Svāmi Vivekānanda) (January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta (Nôrendrônath Dôt-tô), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga. He was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He is a major figure in the history of the Hindu reform movements.



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Life

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

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Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindi लालबहादुर शास्त्री) (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the third Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.

Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh as Lal Bahadur Srivastava. His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad[1]. When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home. Lal Bahadur's parents lodged a complaint with the police, who traced the child, and returned him to his parents.


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Innovation

"This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when noone else recognizes that it is present."

- Deepak Chopra

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Frederick Gardner Cottrell
Frederick Gardner Cottrell was born on January 10, 1877, in Oakland, California, and his childhood hobbies included photography, electricity, telegraphy, and publishing a weekly newspaper. Cottrell received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1896 and did one year of graduate work there; next he taught high school in Oakland for three years, then journeyed to Europe to study first with Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in Berlin and later with Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1902. He was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, at Berkeley from 1903 to 1911.

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Decisions

"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

- Stephen Covey

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Claude C. Hopkins

Claude C. Hopkins (1866-1932) was one of the great advertising pioneers, he believed advertising existed only to sell something and should be measurable and justify the results that it produced
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Hope

"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work"

- Sergey Brin

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Ashapoorna Devi
Ashapoorna Devi (Bengali: আশাপূর্ণা দেবী), also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She was born in 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989. For her contribution as a novelist and short story writer, the Sahitya Akademi conferred its highest honour, the Fellowship, in 1994. She died in 1995.

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Peace

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa


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Alan Napier

Alan Napier (born Alan W. Napier-Clavering, 7 January 1903 in King's Norton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England[1] – 8 August 1988 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and the great-great grandson of author Charles Dickens. He was stage-struck from childhood and after graduating from Clifton College, the tall 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), booming-voiced Napier studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then later was engaged by the Oxford Players, where he worked with such raw young talent as Sir John Gielgud and Robert Morley.

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Peace

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa


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Alan Napier

Alan Napier (born Alan W. Napier-Clavering, 7 January 1903 in King's Norton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England[1] – 8 August 1988 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and the great-great grandson of author Charles Dickens. He was stage-struck from childhood and after graduating from Clifton College, the tall 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), booming-voiced Napier studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then later was engaged by the Oxford Players, where he worked with such raw young talent as Sir John Gielgud and Robert Morley.

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Great Minds

"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."

- Charles Colton


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Guru Gobind Singh
Guru Gobind Singh Ji (December 22, 1666 in Patna, Bihar, India - October 7, 1708) was the tenth and last of the Ten human form Gurus of Sikhism. He became Guru on November 11, 1675 at the age of nine, following in the footsteps of his father Guru Teg Bahadur Ji. Before Guru Ji left his body, he nominated Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (SGGS) as the next perpetual Guru of the Sikhs. Guru Gobind Singh moulded the Sikh Religion into its present form today with the formation of the Khalsa and finished the Guru Granth Sahib which some will say was his greatest act.

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Nature

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."


- William Shakespeare


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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Mansoor (Mansur) Ali Khan, the 9th Nawab of Pataudi (Jr.), nicknamed Tiger is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team.

Mansoor was born on January 5, 1941, at Bhopal in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to Iftikhar Ali Khan, eighth Nawab of Pataudi and his wife Sajida Sultan, second daughter of the last ruling nawab of Bhopal. He was educated at Welham Boys' School in Dehra Doon, Lockers Park Prep School in Hertfordshire, Winchester College, and Balliol College, Oxford. His father died on Mansoor's 11th birthday in 1952, whereupon Mansoor succeeded as the ninth Nawab of Pataudi. While the princely state of Pataudi had been merged with India after the end of the British Raj in 1947, Mansoor inherited the titular dignity of Nawab of Pataudi.


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Education

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."


- Mark Twain


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Rahul Dev Burman

Rahul Dev Burman, also known as R. D. Burman, and Pancham da, (June 27, 1939 - January 4, 1994) was one of the great music composers of Bollywood. Commonly R.D. Burman is kown as Pancham among his fans. He was the only son of singer and music composer Sachin Dev Burman and Meera, and the second husband of playback singer Asha Bhosle. He is credited with revolutionizing the music in Hindi films, and his style and techniques continue to be followed by the composers of today.



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Technology

"Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?."


- Andrew Grove


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Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain was among the most prominent Jains of the 20th century. He was a leading industrialist and philanthropist.He was born at Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh in the famous Sahu Jain family in 1911. His grandfather was Sahu Salekh Chand Jain who was involved in religious and charitable activities. His parents were Sahu Diwan Singh and mother Smt. Murti devi were deeply religious. Sahu Shanti Prasad receive his early education at Najibadbad, studied at Banaras Hindu University and did his B.Sc. from Agra University


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Commitment

"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."


- Sam Walton


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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Judah Ozimov, on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl, near Smolensk, Russia. He was the oldest of three children. His father, named Judah Ozimov, and his mother, named Anna Rachel Ozimov (nee Berman), were Orthodox Jews. Ozimov family were millers (the name Ozimov comes from the eponymous sort of wheat in Russian). In 1923 Isaac with his parents immigrated to the USA and settled in Brooklyn, New York. There his parents temporarily changed his birthday to September 7, 1919, in order to sent him to school a year earlier. Their family name was changed from Ozimov to Asimov


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