Thought for the Day

"You say I started with practically nothing, that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible."

- Henry Ford

Update: Here's a good post from Seth Godin that puts this quote in action.

I just finished giving a talk to a group of 400 high-powered (high-leverage, high-paid) credit card execs. As I left the hotel, I passed a much smaller room, where a seminar for local CPAs was going on.

The snacks didn't seem as good. The booklets weren't that interesting either. apparently. But what occurred to me is that the folks in the second room were just as smart and just as talented as the execs in the first room.

The first group was enjoying the benefits of aiming high. They didn't get these jobs because they were arguably smarter or had better connections or had gone to Harvard. No, they were starting with the same raw materials as the group in the second room. The difference, i think, was that a long time ago, the people in the second room had made a decision about what they deserved, or what they were capable of, or what they were going to stick with. And it was a bad decision.

Comments

[Hamendra Singh]

Very true!
In fact the core of the thoughts is belief that the risk taking is directly propotional to the success.
The people who choose not to struggle early on generally have to be satisfied with less in life.

Although there are always exceptions.
:-)
As such everyone, at somepoint of time or the other, has to take a call on what is one with and what one needs to do to get the desired.
They may not make a bad decision if they make it early or late. But then, as Einstein would have called it, "it's always relative!
So I believe it is all post operative thesis. Still interesting.