Isn't this a good thought ????

"If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else."

Barack Obama's presidential speech!! (part 1)...

Full text of Obama's presidential speech in Grant Park ,Chicago(Nov.4,2008):

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.

It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled — Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

It’s the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he’s fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ahead.

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation’s next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House. And while she’s no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

To my campaign manager David Plouffe, my chief strategist David Axelrod, and the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics — you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you’ve sacrificed to get it done.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to — it belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn’t start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington — it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.

It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation’s apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.

I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor’s bills, or save enough for college. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won’t agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can’t solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek — it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers — in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House — a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends…though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world — our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down — we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security — we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America’s beacon still burns as bright –tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.

For that is the true genius of America — that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing — Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons — because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America — the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that “We Shall Overcome.” Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves — if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time — to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth — that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:

Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

OPRAH TO YOU!!!!!

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Warren Buffet's Interview by CNBC TV ( Don't miss)....................

Warren Buffett notes that students today have a better standard of living than John D. Rockefeller once did. "Really getting to do what you love to do everyday — that's really the ultimate luxury… Your standard of living is not equal to your cost of living.
Buffett is happy if he can have a big-screen television, a bucket of popcorn, and sit in his sweats watching Nebraska football games. "The second-richest man on the planet lives the way he invests: simply and without much fuss." He eats burgers, fries, and cherry cokes. His doctor gave him a choice: eat better or excercise. He chose exercise.

• CNBC: "You're not one to accumulate a lot of things."
• Buffett: "No. Most toys are a pain in the neck."
• Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business says: "I think what Warren Buffet embodies is the importance of thinking for yourself, not letting other advisors, other experts, tell you what the right stock to invest in, because they're coming from a very different place than you are." In other words: do what works for you!
• Buffett hasn't made a penny off all the products that are pitched using his name. His favorite book about himself is by Lawrence Cunningham, The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America. (The same author wrote How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett, which also looks interesting.)
• CNBC: "What is the one thing that young people should be doing about money?"
• Buffett: "I tell them two things, generally. One is stay away from credit cards… The second thing I tell them is to invest in themselves."
• CNBC: "What's the number one thing you've learned from doing business with Warren Buffett?"
• Business Owner: "Ethics."
• CNBC: "What is the Warren Buffett secret to success?"
• Buffett: "If people get to my age and they have the people love them that they want to have love them, they're successful. It doesn't make any difference if they've got a thousand dollars in the bank or a billion dollars in the bank… Success is really doing what you love and doing it well. It's as simple as that. I've never met anyone doing that who doesn't feel like a success. And I've met plenty of people who have not achieved that and whose lives are miserable."

Collection :

* The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed.

* One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

* Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but not for the human being. There is no reason whatsoever why we should start with animals in order to study human motivation.
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so much because of injustice per se or because of any particular pains involved, but rather because this treatment threatens to make the world look unreliable, or unsafe, or unpredictable. Young children seem to thrive better under a system which has at least a skeletal outline of rigidity, in which there is a schedule of a kind, some sort of routine, something that can be counted upon, not only for the present but far into the future.

* Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

* It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

* I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all .

* "They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own." - Antonio Porchia

* All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin (1939- )

* Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

* In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. -Diego Marchi

* The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

* Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. -James R. Cook

* Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910)

* Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

* I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today. -Sheldon S. Maye

* The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. -T. H. White

* The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. -Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

* No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. -W. A. Nance

* The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

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1. It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." — W. Somerset Maugham

2. "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." — John Locke (1632-1704)

3. "How glorious it is—and also how painful—to be an exception."

4. "Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it." — Thoreau

5. "The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man." — Carl Jung (1875-1961)

6. "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." — Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)

7. "People love to talk but hate to listen." — Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)

8. "The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse." — German proverb.

9. "Wealth, position, fame and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render."
--- Og Mandino --- Submitted by Matthias Schmelz --- Portugal

10. "We all are Islands with Invisible Bridges."
Written in 2008 by Jeton Lajqi --- Brazil

11. "When a person can find sorrow behind your smile, words behind your silence and love behind your anger, you can believe that you have found your Best Buddy."
--- Author Unknown

12. "Someone may have hurt you in the past when you were young and innocent. Anger and hate you felt, a natural feeling to have, but then forgiveness and restoration is also possible and appropriate and it feels good to give up hatred."
--- Copyright © 2008 Zenzen Hidalgo.

13. "Think Positive * Act Positive * Achieve Positive"

14. "I BELONG TO ALL: I am neither an eastern man nor a western man. I don't belong to any country, to any nation, to any religion. Because if you belong to any country, you cannot belong to all. And if you belong to any religion, all religions cannot be yours. I don't belong to any. I have no roots in any country, in any religion, in any partial humanity."

15. "Sometimes you have to speak up, even if they don't want to hear it, because if you don't you are not being true to your self." -- Author Unknown

16. "Never compare, it leads to despair."

17. "The only peace you can find is in the now!" -- Author Unknown

18. "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -- Henry David Thoreau

19. "Failure is just nature's polite way of saying, 'Not yet, my dear.'"
--- Written in 2008 by Munya Mutema --- Zimbabwe
Many people are not living up to their best capabilities due to what I call failure fear. They are afraid of failure, therefore many are satisfied with not trying.

20. "If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe."
--- John Maxwell

21. "While he sits on cushions of advantages, he goes to sleep. It's only when he is pushed, tormented, defeated that he has a chance to learn something new."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

moral for managers...

"The moral for managers is: if you want to know how your subordinates see you, don't try to look in the mirror; that just produces wishful thinking. Turn around 180 degrees and face your own boss."