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Our Life ... Don't Waste It

Philosophical but TRUE

1. ATTITUDE IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT.......
SOLDIER: SIR WE ARE SURROUNDED FROM ALL SIDES BY ENEMIES,

MAJOR: EXCELLENT!! WE CAN ATTACK IN ANY DIRECTION.

2. EVERY ONE KNOWS ABOUT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE, BUT HE NEVER MADE A CALL TO HIS FAMILY. BECAUSE, HIS MOTHER AND WIFE WERE DEAF.

THAT'S LIFE "LIVE FOR OTHERS".

3. THE WORST IN LIFE IS "ATTACHMENT" IT HURTS WHEN YOU LOSE IT. THE BEST THING IN LIFE IS "LONELINESS" BECAUSE IT TEACHES YOU EVERYTHING AND, WHEN YOU LOSE IT, YOU GET EVERYTHING.

4. LIFE IS NOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ACT TRUE TO YOUR FACE........ IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO REMAIN TRUE BEHIND YOUR BACK.

5. IF AN EGG IS BROKEN BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE........ A LIFE ENDS. IF AN EGG BREAKS FROM WITHIN....... LIFE BEGINS.

GREAT THINGS ALWAYS BEGIN FROM WITHIN.

6. IT'S BETTER TO LOSE YOUR EGO TO THE ONE YOU LOVE. THAN TO LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE....... BECAUSE OF EGO.

7. A RELATIONSHIP DOESN'T SHINE BY JUST SHAKING HANDS AT THE BEST OF TIMES. BUT IT BLOSSOMS BY HOLDING FIRMLY IN CRITICAL SITUATIONS.

8. HEATED GOLD BECOMES ORNAMENTS. BETTED COPPER BECOMES WIRES. DEPLETED STONE BECOMES STATUE. SO, THE MORE PAIN YOU GET IN YOUR LIFE THE MORE VALUABLE YOU BECOME.

9. WHEN YOU TRUST SOMEONE TRUST HIM COMPLETELY WITHOUT ANY DOUBT.............. AT THE END YOU WOULD GET ONE OF THE TWO: EITHER A LESSON FOR YOUR LIFE OR A VERY GOOD PERSON.

10. WHY WE HAVE SO MANY TEMPLES, IF GOD IS EVERYWHERE?

A WISE MAN SAID: AIR IS EVERYWHERE, BUT WE STILL NEED A FAN TO FEEL IT.

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Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: 'Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease'?

To this Arthur Ashe replied:
'The world over -- 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'.
And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'



Happiness keeps you Sweet
Trials keep you Strong
Sorrow keeps you Human
Failure keeps you humble
and
Success keeps you glowing, but

only Faith & Attitude Keeps you going......................... ........

Tips for Better Life

Nice Read: http://pravstalk.com/tips-for-better-life/

Poster kinda thoughts and most of the things are not that difficult to follow.

Discipline and doing the right things is the heart of the message.

10 Inspiring Last Lectures and Commencement Speeches Everyone Should Watch

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http://oedb.org/library/features/10_inspiring_lectures_and_speeches

Really Good One.

Let's change to make a change

Check following inspiring story of eagle ...

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results. Let's change to make a change!!!

Tortoise and Hare Study - Nicely Modified

We all have grown up listening to famous story of "Tortoise and Hare". Major lesson from that story was: "slow and consistent wins the race"

Here is modified version of that story and it's hilarious read.

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Quotes by Chanakya - II

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1) A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. 

2) As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. 

3) As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? 

4) Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. 

5) Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. 

6) He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. 

7) He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. 

8) If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? 

9) It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life. 

10) O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. 

11) One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. 

12) Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. 

13) Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. 

14) The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth. 

15) The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. 

16) The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects. 

17) The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. 

18) The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. 

19) The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. 

20) There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. 

21) There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. 

22) We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. 

23) A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. 

24) Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits. 

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I have Learned That ...

This one is from: http://pravstalk.com/i-have-learned-that/

And believe me, it’s one of the finest. Go through this very carefully and try to digest each of the sentences.

I've Learned...

That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

 

I've Learned...

That when you're in love, it shows.

 

I've Learned...

That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day.

 

I've Learned...

That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

 

I've Learned...

That being kind is more important than being right.

 

I've Learned...

That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

 

I've Learned...

That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

 

I've Learned...

That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

 

I've Learned...

That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

 

I've Learned...

That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

 

I've Learned...

That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

 

I've Learned...

That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

 

I've Learned...

That money doesn't buy class.

 

I've Learned...

That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

 

I've Learned...

That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

 

I've Learned...

That the Lord didn't do it all in one day. What makes me think I can?

 

I've Learned...

That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.

 

I've Learned...

That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.

 

I've Learned...

That love, not time, heals all wounds.

 

I've Learned...

That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

 

I've Learned...

That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

 

I've Learned...

That there's nothing sweeter than sleeping with your babies and feeling their breath on your cheeks.

 

I've Learned...

That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

 

I've Learned...

That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

 

I've Learned...

That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

 

I've Learned...

That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

 

I've Learned...

That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her, one more time, before she passed away.

 

I've Learned...

That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

 

I've Learned...

That a smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

 

I've Learned...

That I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it.

 

I've Learned...

That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

 

I've Learned...

That everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

 

I've Learned...

That it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

 

I've Learned...

That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

 

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Learnings from Steve Jobs

This article is from: http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/jan/22slide2-how-steve-jobs-can-help-you-succeed.htm

 

Ø       Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Ø       Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Ø       A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

Ø       Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Ø       Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Ø       Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.

Ø       Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Ø       Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Ø       It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it too. That's what we get paid to do. We just want to make great products.

Ø       I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Ø       I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year... It's very character-building.

Ø       The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Ø       I was lucky -- I found what I love to do early in life.

Ø       Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

Ø       People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.

Ø       You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Ø       I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Ø       It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them -- not something they'd want now.

Ø       To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of discipline.

Ø       We are very careful about what features we add because we can't take them away.

Ø       Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Ø       Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Ø       I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Ø       I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Ø       When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is -- are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

Ø       There's a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner's mind.' It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind.

Ø       Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

Ø       (We want to) get new products out there and have new ways to buy them. I think if we manage the top line, the bottom line will follow. I don't know what the future will bring, but we're working as fast as we can.

Ø       We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.

Ø       Our DNA is as a consumer company -- for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

Ø       ...Almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Ø       It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led and how much you get it.

Ø       In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Ø       So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

Ø       You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

Ø       We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Ø       It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Ø       The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Ø       I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

Ø       We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Ø       Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Ø       We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

Ø       You know, we don't grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved... I mean, we're constantly taking things. It's a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge.

Ø       Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Ø       If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

Ø       I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over 10 million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

Ø       I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Ø       My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Ø       I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if (Jobs) got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Ø       The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

 

 

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Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page

This article is from: http://www.rediff.com/money/2009/jan/05slide1-want-to-succeed-like-googles-larry-page.htm

He's just 35, but Lawrence Edward Page is already one of the most successful men on the planet.

Last year, Forbes ranked him as the 33rd richest man in the world and the 14th richest American. Though his personal fortune took a beating the economic crisis that steamrollered the world -- he lost $11.9 billion as his shares shed 59% of their value -- the Google co-founder does not have much to worry about.

The company that he co-founded with Sergey Brin in 1998 is today one of the most valued sites on the Internet. By the time it celebrated its 10th anniversary, its name has become part of everyday lexicon.

• If you have a product that's really gaining a lot of usage, then it's probably a good idea.
• When you grow, you continually have to invent new processes. We've done a pretty good job keeping up, but it's an ongoing challenge.
• We built a business on the opposite message. We want you to come to Google and quickly find what you want. Then we're happy to send you to the other sites. In fact, that's the point. The portal strategy tries to own all of the information.
• Pretty early on, I saw a newspaper story about Googling dates. People were checking out who they were dating by Googling them. I think it's a tremendous responsibility. If you think everybody is relying on us for information, you understand the responsibility. That's mostly what I feel. You have to take that very seriously.
• Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would.
• Through innovation and iteration, Google takes something that works well and improves upon it in unexpected ways.
• If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.
• The 'be good' concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects. For example, we just released Gmail, a free e-mail service. We said, 'We will not hold your e-mail hostage. 'We will make it possible for you to get your e-mail out of Gmail if you ever want to.
• The dotcom period was difficult for us. We were dismayed in that climate... We knew a lot of things people were doing weren't sustainable, and that made it hard for us to operate. We couldn't get good people for reasonable prices. We couldn't get office space. It was a hypercompetitive time. We had the opportunity to invest in 100 or more companies and didn't invest in any of them. I guess we lost a lot of money in the short term -- but not in the long term.
• Talented people are attracted to Google because we empower them to change the world. Google has large computational resources and distribution that enables individuals to make a difference.
• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
• We think we're an important company, and we're dedicated to doing this over the long term. We like being independent.
• Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.
• It definitely helps to be really focused on what you are doing.
• My experience is that when people are trying to do ambitious things, they're all worried about failing when they start. But all sorts of interesting things spin out that are of huge economic value. Also, in these kinds of projects, you get to work with the best people and have a very interesting time. They're not really taking a risk, but they feel like they are.
• From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. While many companies claim to put their customers first, few are able to resist the temptation to make small sacrifices to increase shareholder value. Google has steadfastly refused to make any change that does not offer a benefit to the users who come to the site.
• You (the Google user) want answers and you want them right now. Who are we to argue?
• Many leaders of big organisations don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
• If we are not trusted, we have no business. We have such a lot to lose; we are forced to act in everyone's interest."
• I would rather have people think we're confused than let our competitors know what we're going to do.
• We chose it (the name Google) because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
• The ultimate search engine... would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.
• Our company relies on having the trust of our users and using that information for their benefit. That's a very strong motivation for us. We're committed to that. If you start to mandate how products are designed, I think that's a really bad path to follow. I think instead we should have laws that protect the privacy of data, for example, from government requests and other kinds of requests.
• Many companies are under pressure to keep their earnings in line with analysts' forecasts. Therefore, they often accept smaller, predictable earnings rather than larger and less predictable returns. Sergey and I feel this is harmful, and we intend to steer in the opposite direction.
• We think a lot about how to maintain our culture and the fun elements. I don't know if other companies care as much about those things as we do. We spent a lot of time getting our offices right. We think it's important to have a high density of people. People are packed together everywhere. We all share offices. We like this set of buildings because it's more like a densely packed university campus than a typical suburban office park.
• We think a lot about how to maintain our culture and the fun elements. I don't know if other companies care as much about those things as we do.
• It is an advantage being young. You don't have as many other responsibilities.
• If you have a great product that meets people's needs, they start telling their friends, especially when it's a search engine, which is something that everybody has to use. So we've actually been growing 20 per cent per month, compounded, for our whole history, and without spending any significant money on advertising. It's an incredible phenomenon.
• We were, I guess, lucky enough to be trying to be profitable long before it was fashionable, and that was a really good decision. I think it's more luck than real insight on our parts, but Sergey and I really felt a lot better about having a business that could actually make money. So we figured that once we were at that stage then not much could hurt the company.
• We are focused on providing an environment where talented, hard working people are rewarded for their contributions to Google and for making the world a better place
• We're trying to use the web's self-organising properties to decide which things to present. We don't want to be in the position of having to decide these things. We take the responsibility seriously. People depend on us.
• Google is organised around the ability to attract and leverage the talent of exceptional technologists and business people. We have been lucky to recruit many creative, principled and hard working stars. We hope to recruit many more in the future. We will reward and treat them well.
• By always placing the interests of the user first, Google has built the most loyal audience on the web. And that growth has come not through TV ad campaigns, but through word of mouth from one satisfied user to another.
• You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialise anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn't necessarily help anybody. You've got to actually get it into the world; you've got to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it.
• Invariably we try 10 things that don't quite work out in order to do one thing that's successful. And we learn a lot in doing the 10 things that didn't quite work.
• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
• The amazing thing is that we're part of people's daily lives, like brushing their teeth. It's just something they do throughout the day while working, buying things, deciding what to do after work and much more. Google has been accepted as part of people's lives. It's quite remarkable. Most people spend most of their time getting information, so maybe it's not a complete surprise that Google is successful.
• Our goal is to organise the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. That's our mission. When we started, we had about 30 million Web pages, which was quite large for the time -- that was two years ago. Now, we have well over a billion Web pages. So that gives you some idea of how we've grown in content. So we try to make more and more stuff available to people. We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.
• Because of our employee talent, Google is doing exciting work in nearly every area of computer science. Our main benefit is a workplace with important projects, where employees can contribute and grow.
• We've actually been very deliberate about making all of our decisions in a way that minimises the risk that we will go out of business basically. We have pretty conservative financial planning. That turned out to be really smart, and we've had tremendous viral growth anyway, so we haven't really had any marketing expenses or things like that and we have huge volumes.
• The increasing volume of information is just more opportunity to build better answers to questions. The more information you have, the better.
• You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.
• In the same way Google puts users first when it comes to our online service, Google Inc. puts employees first when it comes to daily life in our Googleplex headquarters.
• Technology knowledge is going to drive wealth: people's ability to deal with technology and to build interesting things.
• Always deliver more than expected.
• It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all eyes focused on what we do and to give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.
• We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity.
• Our opportunity and responsibility has continued to expand. It doesn't feel all that different to me than it did a few years ago.
• The thing that matters is experience. We have lots of executives from failed companies; they learned a lot from these things. They say, 'We can't do that -- we tried that and it didn't work.' So failure is useful.
• When you have basic technology you find interesting things to do with them, and if you're lucky they'll turn into something big.

Source Courtesy: Rediff