Starting small - a key to success
I was reading through the story of brining mobile phones to Bangladesh. Its the tale of GrameenPhone — a partnership between Norway’s Telenor and Grameen Bank, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize — illustrates a new approach to building business opportunities in the developing world.
“Nothing good in society ever started out big,” says Quadir: […]
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you always got” Tony from NCIS
My quote of the day
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings-
This is very true of most of what is blogged.
Attention spans
Herbert Simon - “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
Quotes on responsibility
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we’re gone. - Bill Clinton
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl
The […]
What wisdom would you like to pass on to others?
Steve Pavlina has this list of quotes of wisdom that he would like to pass onto others. Here are a few of them.
After the age of 50, you will discover that your greatest trophies in life are your children.” - Rod LeGrande
“There are no ordinary moments.” - Mark Valentine
“Effective communication involves more than talent. It […]
Quotes on personal courage
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. […]
Quotes on potential
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat […]