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Couple of months back I was reading Business Today (Issue: 11 Jan 2009)  and found a really interesting article ‘Best Advice I Ever Got‘.  That article was all about successfuly people from all over India and the best advice they ever received.

As I found that article really inspiring therefore I request the same ‘Business Today’ issue from my city library [that's the only place where I can get that copy, April,09]  and wanted to share it with all blog readers who haven’t got a chance to see that issue.

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# Jamshed J. Irani – Tata Sons – Out of every ten men born in this world, nine work for tenth. Prepare to be the tenth.

# LN Mittal – ArcelorMittal – Reach for stars with foot on the ground.

# R. Seshasayee – Ashok Leyland – Listen to your inner voice.

# Lord Swraj Paul – Caparo Group – You can’t build a successful business without a successful family.

# Anand G. Mahindra – Mahindra & Mahindra – Uphold your family tradition.

# Jignesh Shah – MCX – Results matter, efforts don’t.

# AM Naik – L&T – Be successful, but not at a cost of principles.

# Pasoon Joshi – McCann World Group – Difficult path leads you to destination, beautiful path is destination in itself.

# Amir Khan- Actor – It’s better to go wrong with your own instincts than somebody’s else.

# Deepak Parekh – HDFC – Work for a home-grown start-up.

# Nirmal Kampani – JM Financial – Never borrow for personal needs.

# Venu Srinivasan – TVS Motor – Take risk but one at a time.

# GM Rao – GMR Infrastructure – Focus on one category.

# Naresh Goyal – Jet Airways – Be better than the best.

# Rama Prasad Goenka – RPG, SAREGAMA, Philips Carbon Black – Be honest with your banker, doctor and lawyer.

# Piyush Pandey – Ogilvy & Mather India – Take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.

# Shelly Lazarus – Ogilvy & Mather India – Pay attention to your people.

# Motilal Oswal – Motilal Oswal Financial Services – Aim for the highest education in your field.

# Sanjeev Bikhchandani – Info Edge – It’s better to have cash in your account than in your clients.

# N Sankar – Sanmar Group – Ultimately, management is common sense.

# Sam Balsara – Madison Communication – Job must be done and nothing is impossible.

# Anu Aga – Invest in yourself.

# Harsh Mariwala – Marico – Invest in people and empower them.

# Akhil Gupta – Blackstone India – Every problem can be traced back to failure of management and leadership.

# Uday Kotak – Kotak Mahindra Bank – The most important principle in life is humility and conservatism.

# MV SUBBAIH – Murugappa Group – Understand our true strength.

# Vikram Akula – SFS Microfinance – Poor Know more than us.

# Venugopal Dhoot – Videocon – Live and let live.

# Malvinder Mohan Singh – Ranbaxy Laboratories – Go with your gut.

# Deepak Puri – Moser Baer – Be fair in life, work and relationships.

# Vikram Kirloskar – Toyota Kirloskar Motor – Keep your family priorities ahead of everything else.

# Dilip Chabbria – DC – When you risk everything, you get courage to succeed.

# Azim Premji – Wipro – Some of the brightest advice comes from our junior most employees.

# Salvatore Ferragamo – Borro Vineyards – If you keep at it, results will come.

# Kalpana Morparia – JP Morgan – You are too young to give up your executive post.

# Sanjay Nayar – Citi South Asia – This is the best job you will ever do.

# Ashok Soota – Mindtree Consulting – Be willing to pay a little extra for a worthwhile deal.

# G Madhavan Nair – ISRO – Share the credit for success, take responsibility for trouble.

# GV Prasad – Dr Reddy – Always raise the bar.

# Aditya Puri – HDFC Bank – First know what you really want from life.

# Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw – Biocon – Failure is temporary, it’s giving up that’s permanent.

# Vinita Bali – Britannia – Don’t give unsolicited advice.

# Ashish Dhawan – ChrysCapital Investment Advisers – The psychology of investing is more important than the fundamentals of investing.

# Chetan Maini – Reva Electric Car Company – Do what you really love doing, and nothing less than 200 per cent.

# Harsh Goenka – RPG Group – You have no right to the fruit of your actions.

# Gautam Adani – Adani Group – Trust your intuition.

# M.Rammohan Rao – ISB – Be confident but not arrogant.

# S Sivakumar – ITC – Reinvent the wheel.

# Shantanu Prakash – EduComp – Remain focused in times of crisis and use that as an opportunity to become stronger.

# Raghav Bahl – Network 18 – Surround yourself with best people and set them free.

[Source: Business Today, 11/01/2009]

Doing the right thing, in the right way and at the right time will produce the results you want and deliver the goods. In other words, knowing what to do, when where and how, is the master key to your success. Gain knowledge and get ideas. Know the things over which you have power and shape them to your advantage. Learn and analyze your strength and weakness. You have total power over your attitudes, outlook and conduct. Think positively and act decisively.

If you want people to flock to you, talk wedding bells and do not sound funeral chimes. Appreciate what other do for you and make the appreciation come from your heart. People crave for recognition and appreciation. Even more you must first establish yourself as a good and appreciative listener. Everyone wants, nay, truly craves, for an enthusiastic and appreciative audience. Become and remain an enthusiastic and interesting listener and encourage the other people to talk. One learns and gets to know by listening. On the other hand, one only exposes oneself by talking. You get the advantage when you listen and lose it when you talk.

You can make people feel important by asking them to talk and tell you about their accomplishment and achievements. Let them have a chance of playing the big hero. If you want an individual to like you and take to you instantly, let him feel that you really like him and are favorably impressed by him.

Words which convey joy, speech that spells success and sounds that ring wedding bells attract and bring others to your fold. Banish negative words like defeat, depression, failure, misfortune, trouble etc. from your thoughts, vocabulary and expression. Words move people. Let us use them to build up people to make them feel better, feel important, feel wanted, and feel big and happy.

[Author: Kapil Mohan Gupta]

Chanakya, a great Indian politician, strategist and writer ( 350 BC – 75 BC).

Below mentioned are couple of his famous sayings,

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.”

“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”

“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”

“Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.”

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”

‘ART OF WAR’ , it will be far better if Chanakya was asked to write it.

[Source: Unknown]

On 25th Dec, 2007 I was flying from Delhi to Mumbai through ‘Air Deccan‘ flight DN-666. After the initial check-in processes i was offered 15F as my seat.

Suddenly I noticed a strange thing inside the aircraft. There was no row ‘13′ in the flight, yes after row ‘12′ there was row ‘14′ directly and row ‘13′ was missing from the sequence. For a while I thought that there might be some human mistake. But later I asked myself “Why 13 ?”. During my whole journey I was wondering why there is no row’13′ nor I prefer to ask from any cabin crew.

As I reached Mumbai my curiosity was at it’s peak so I directly reach towards cabin crew and asked my doubt from one of the beautiful air-hostess standing near the door and the answer I got was again confusing one for me. She told me “Might be the aircraft make is in that manner, Sir” (with a pleasant smile).

But I was not agree with her answer because I am a regular air traveller and I had never noticed such thing nor I had ever heard such things from other people. That’s why I am still wondering that why there was no row ‘13′ in the flight.

Do we have superstitious people everywhere ?