This document contains a list of topics from "Advice" to "Wisdom" with short phrases or quotes related to each topic. Some of the key topics covered include advice, anger, attitude, belief, character, courage, creativity, customers, failure, faith, and friendship. The document provides concise words of wisdom on various life lessons and principles related to personal growth and success.

1. CONTENTS
1.Advice
2.Anger & Self Control
3.Attitude
4.Belief
5.Character
6.Charity
7.Compromise
8.Confidence
9.Conscience
10. Conversation
11. Courage
12.Creativity
13.Crime
14.Criticism
15.Customers
16.Desires
17.Disciplines

2. 18.Dream
19.Duty
20.Enthusiasm
21.Excellence
22.Expression
23.Failure
24.Faith
25.Fear
26.Friendship
27.General
28.Goal
29.God
30.Greatness
31.Happiness
32.Hardwork
33.Honesty
34.Hope

3. 35.Idea
36.Impressions
37.Job
38.Knowledge
39.Listening
40.Leadership
41.Learning
42.Lethargy
43.Life
44.Luck
45.Management
46.Manners
47.Mistakes
48.Mind
49.Money
50.Opportunity
51.Past,Present& Future

4. 52.Peace
53.People
54.Perception
55.Praise
56.Problems
57.Promise
58.Quality
59.Quitting
60.Respect
61.Risks
62.Satisfaction
63.Silence
64.Simplicity
65.Stitch in Time
66.Success
67.Think
68.Theory V/s Practice

5. 69.Time
70.Trust
71.Wealth
72.Winner
73.Will
74.Wisdom
Anyway
76.Jack Welch’s Six Rules
It Couldn’t be Done
78.From minutes to eternity….
Guiding principles of J.R.D.TATA
80.Attitude
ADVICE
With nothing are we so generous as advice.
It is easy to propose impossible remedies.

6. Sometimes a good scare is worth more than good
advice.
You want to change everthing and everybody. That is
what makes you unhappy.
If you do not stand for something,you will fall for
everything.
Give to every other human being every right you claim
for yourself.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
ANGER & SELF CONTROL
When you are angry,a great deal of energy is used up
and wasted. Use energy wisely.
You cannot make a fool of the one who keeps cool.
Self-Control will give you unlimited control.
Real power and authority is not power and authority
over others, but over the self.
The moment I insult my fellowmen that is the moment
I lose the respect of others. p

7. Anger is enemy of Ahimsa and pride is the monster
that swallows it up.
Staying calm is the best way to take the wind out of
angry person’s sail.
If you are annoyed be calm and think for what you are
annoyed.
Apologize quickly and graciously, anger slowly and
thoughtfully.
ATTITUDE
To change everything,simply change your attitude.
As you begin a new task or assignmentit is your
attitude more than anything else that will determine
your success.
Empty sacks will never stand upright.
As a lot,but take what is offered.
BELIEF

8. In belief there is power, our opportunities, become
plain,our vision becomes realities.
A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and
greater than a ‘yes’ uttered to please,or what is
worse,to avoid trouble.
In the moment you carry this conviction…in that
moment your dream will become a reality.
CHARACTER
Our character is what we do when we think no one is
looking.
It takes a greater character to carry off good fortune
than bad.
CHARITY
Do for others with no desire of returned favours.
We all should plant some trees we’ll never sit under.
While earning your daily bread, Be sure you share a
slice with those less fortunate.

9. COMPROMISE
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a
way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
CONFIDENCE
No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.
CONSCIENCE
Conscience is inner warning that some one is looking at
what we are doing.
Conscience is God’s presence in man. There is a higher
court that courts of justice and then there is the court
of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
The human voice can never reach the distance that is
covered by the still small voice of conscience.

10. CONVERSATION
Silence is one great art of conversation.
The secret of success in conversation is to be able to
disagree without being disagreeable.
When you have nothing important or interesting to
say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.
The less man thinks the more the talks.
COURAGE
One man with courage is a majority.
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you’re scared.
All our dreams can come true… If we have courage to
pursue them.

11. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person
refuses to quit.
He who looses wealth looses much;
He who looses a friend looses more;
He who looses courage looses all.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things.
I cannot change & courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference!
Courage is something you can never loose! Because
Courage is something you Always Choose!
Courage is the ladder on which all the virtues mount.
If you still have courage after loosing all, you can’t rest
assured that you have not lost everything.
Perfect courage means doing un-witnessed, what we
should be capable of, with world looking on.
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without
losing heart.

12. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life,
you will regret the things you didn’t do much more
than the ones you did.
CREATIVITY
The beauty of all things lies in your ability to appreciate
them.
The more creative you are, the more things you notice.
Any activity becomes creative when you try to do it
better than you did it before.
If you keep doing what you’ve always done you’ll keep
getting what you’ve always gotten.
It takes a lot more creativity to find out what’s right
than what’s wrong.
Genius does not argue, it creates.
Don’t make the best the enemy of the better.
You can’t do things differently until you see things
differently.

13. Don’t change with the the change,but change before
the change.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably
wrong.
To comitt a mistake is a crime, To be lazy is a greater
crime and to neglect work & offer excuses is the
greatest crime.
Not failure,but low aim is crime.
CRITICISM
Give a lot of time to the improvement of yourself,then
there is no time to criticize others.
If I am alway s comparing myself with other human
beings, I will either suffer from ego or jealousy.
When you agree with people who gossipyou will be
the next one they slender.
When others make mistakes do not keep counting
these mistakes. Allow them to count on you for co-
operation to erase that weakness.

14. When you judge others,you are revealing your own
fears and prejudices.
It is easy to find fault in what others do, but difficult to
do it yourself.
Great minds discuss ideas,
Medium minds discuss events,
Small minds discuss people.
If you must be candid,be candid beautifully.
CUSTOMERS
Any successful organization has the customer as its
focus.
More the prospects you meet,more the customers you
get.
Think of the customer first if you would like to have
the customer think of you first.
Your best customer are thin-skinned.

15. They are the geese who can lay golden eggs.
Inspire them to keep laying.
Service tea is chipped cup can make them walk over to
the competition.
A customer, like anyone else, may not be able to take
and make decision easily.
Once you give him the alternatives and educate him on
how to take a decision and do not push him,he is likely
to choose that alternatives that will make him happy.
Be more prompt to go to your customer in adversity
than in prosperity.
Customer satisfaction is affordable and profitable
because a satisfied customer becomes your salesman
forever.
Give the customers the best you have and the
customers will give you back the best they have.
If you are not hearing customer complaints,that
doesn’t mean that everything is okay.

16. It may only mean that uncomplaining customers are
quietly accepting conditions which they are disliking
and planning never to return.
When you do hear complaints,you have a second
chance to make things right,specific customer but for
all those other customers who follows.
If you are not busy meeting customers you’re forcing
them to visit your competitors.
If you are not busy meeting competition you’re
creating it.
Your attitude determines the satisfaction level of your
customers.
Observe your competitors for they first find out your
faults.
Price doesn’t matter if you make the buyer want the
thing more than the price.
Listening to a customer’s complaint is a 90%job; takig
necessary action is another 7%; 3% is following up with
him to ensure satisfaction.

17. The postage stamp(salesman)secures success through
its ability to stick to one thing(customer) till it gets
there.
Buyers will beat a path of your door provided you beat
a path to their doors first.
Don’t waste time learning the tricks of the trade,
instead, learn the trade.
DESIRE
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very
source of his power
DISCIPLINE
Good people without discipline are worth nothing.
DREAM

18. A man’s dreams are the index of his greatness.
When you cease a dream, you cease to live.
You see things and say “why?” and I say “why not?”
You will become as small as your controlling desire, or
as great as your dominant aspiration.
The only limits are, as always those of vision.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we
acknowledge.
Think big. A little confidence breeds more confidence
and the more you stand up to things, the more you will
succeed.
Dare to dream dare to try dare to fail dare to succeed.
When you try to reach the stars, you may not quite get
one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud
either.
Dreams come true only for those who work while they
dream.

19. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend
upon what we think.
The only limitations to our realization of tomorrow will
be our doubts of today.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with
which the force is directed.
Never give up on what you really want to do.
The person with big dreams is more powerful than the
one with all the facts.
Hold fast to dreams,
For,if dreams die,
Life is broken winged bird that cannot fly.
DUTY
Performance of one’s duty should be independent of
public opinion.

20. ENTHUSIASM
Enthusiasm is caught, not taught,
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has
unlimited enthusiasm.
EXCELLENCE
There is a indefinite difference between a little wrong
and just right, between fairly good and the best;
between mediocrity and superiority.
Going far beyond the call of duty doing more than
others expect this is what is excellence about. And it
comes from striving, maintaining the highest
standards, looking after the smallest detail;and going
the extra mile, Excellence means doing your very best
in everything in everyway.
It’s easier to keep up than catch up.

21. I do the very best I know, how so ever,the very best I
can, and I mean To keep on doing so until the end.
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to
their commitmentto excellence,regardless of their
chosen field of endeavor.
Give the world the best you have,and the best will
come back to you.
A race horse that can run a mile a few seconds faster is
worth twice as much that little extra proves to be the
greatest value.
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than
anybody else expects you.
Never excuse yourself.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing.
Life challenges us with the fact the everything can be
done better.
The only thing you owe life is to become the best you
can be.

22. Going the extra mile puts you miles ahead of your
competition.
It’s OK to be content with what you have but never
with what you are.
When you are number 2 & 3 try harder and when are 1
try even harder.
You’ll never build a reputation, a business,or a
relationship on what you intend to do. Your intentions
may be honorable and sincere, but unless you put
them into action, nothing is changed.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one
thing at a time.
Action without delay is soul of efficiency.
Excellence means doing the little things well,doing a
thousand things one percent better rather doing on
thing a thousand percent better.
It is a funny thing about life, If you refuse to accept
anything but the best,you very often get it.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper sweep the
streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like

23. Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed
music ,sweep streets so well that all the hosts of
heaven and earth will have to pause and say “Here
lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.”
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should
do his job so well that the living the dead and the
unborn could do it no better.
EXPRESSIONS
Nature gave you your face,
But you have to provide the expression.
Of all the things you wear,
Your expression is the most important.
Cheerfulness maintained in adversity is the best form
of courage.
No matter how great your words may be, you will be
judged by your actions.

24. Be careful! Your each expression will leave an
impression.
FAILURE
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give
you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Failure is success if we want to learn from it.
There is no job so simple that is cannot be done wrong.
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of
making one.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try
again in different way.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is
often how an individual views mistakes.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising
everytime we fall.

25. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot
do what they want to, when all they need is a reason
why they can.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a
single excuse.
That man will win some other day who looses with a
smile.
Fear rather that if you don’t try, time will only prove
you could have succeeded.
If your life is free of failures, you’re probably not taking
enough risks.
Fear not that you might be hurt.
Fear rather that you might never grow if you keeping
for painless success.
Failure doesn’t mean that you don’t have it.
It does mean you have to do the same thing in a different
way.
Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you.
It does mean God has a different idea.

26. Failure doesn’t mean you should give up.
It does mean you must try harder.
Failure doesn’t mean you’re finished.
It does mean you have a chance to try something new.
Worry is often substitute for action.
Fear of losing can take the joy out of winning.
Those who fret over small issues only demonstrate
their inability to find anything big in their lives.
All men make mistakes, only the fools repeat.
We do not normally plan to fail; we normally fail to
plan.
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great
deal from failure.
No battle is more surely lost than the one that’s not
fought.
You must learn to accept defeat without being
defeated.

27. When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick
him.
No failure is ever final nor is any success.
Men do not fail, they give up trying.
Even Napoleon lost one-third of all the important
battles he fought.
FAITH
The only thing that stands between a man and what he
wants from life is often merely they will to try it and
the faith to believe that it is possible.
Indeed one’s faith is one’s plans and methods is truly
tested when then the horizon before one is the
blackest.
Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the
darkest and human reason is beaten down to the
ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our
rescue.

28. Two men looked out from the prison bars, one saw
mud and the other saw stars.
Faith is power,
Who believes is strong and
Who doubts is weak.
FEAR
Hope and Fear go arm in arm, there is no fear without
hope nor hoping without fear.
If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things would
not get done.
FRIENDSHIP
When promises are not kept, close friends are lost.
The best way to get rid of enemies is to make them
your friends.

29. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity and that
too unconditional assistance.
Make new friends, but keep the old, those are silver,
these are gold.
Prosperity makes friends,
And Adversity tries them.
Keep in touch with friends, colleagues and books.
“You make more friends in two months by becoming
genuinely interested in other people than you can in
two years by trying to get other people interested in
you.”
A friend is a person who knows all about you but likes
you any way.
It is easy to create relations, but you have to learn for
maintaining the same.
A good executive is judged by the company he keeps.
GENERAL

30. When there is growth, changes are automative.
If there is fear to change, how can there be growth?
The price of freedom is always responsibility.
Write your weakness in sand and your advantages in
marble.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its
own sake.
No one is so powerful that he can harm others without
harming himself.
It is difficult to worry while you are busy doing
something that requires planning and thinking.
Listen to others, but use your own judgements.
If you want peace, you must prepare for war.
Don’t brag. It’s not the whistle that moves the train.
There is no right way to do something wrong.
You wouldn’t be worried about what people think of you
if you know how seldom they actually do.

31. To establish one self in the world, one does all one can to
seem to be established there already.
Never fight a man who has nothing to lose.
How can we expect someone else to keep our secret if
we cannot keep it ourselves?
Who lies for you will lie againstyou.
Good to forgive; Best to forget.
Truth stands, even if there is no public support. It is self-
sustained.
Copyright is what takes away the right to copy.
It is impossible for man to be cheated by anyone but
himself.
Injustice is easy to bear, but it is justice that hurts.
Anything worthwhile is created by restless minds.
Pretend deaf but hear from every corner.
Virtue would not go nearly so far if vanity did not keep
her company.
One father is more than a hundred school masters.

32. To find out what he does when he has nothing to do.
The chains of habits are too weak to be felt until they are
too strong to be broken.
He who will not economize will have to “AGONIZE”.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither ther
servant nor the served.
The beginnings of all things are very small.
Control your pen,not to give pain to anyone.
People who do not believe in miracles are not realists.
GOAL
Aim at the stars for even if you fall short you will fall on
the moon.
This one step… choosing a goal and stricking to it….
Changes everything.
This indispensable first step to getting the things you
want out of life is this, decide what you want.

33. There are those who travel and those who are going
somewhere. They are different and they are some, the
successful man has this advantage over his rivals he
know where he is going.
Too many people care more about always doing things
the right way, rather than doing the right thing.
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long
enough.
If you do not take the right path, everything else will
become difficult to find.
Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy
looking at our speedometers that we forget the
milestone.
If you’re headed in the right direction,each step,no
matter how small,is getting closer to your goal.
Sound foundation is essential before construction of your
aim.
When a man doesn’t know what harbor he is heading for,
no wind is right.
He who has no missionin life is the poorest of all.

34. GOOD & GOD
Most people wish to serve God but in an advisory
capacity only.
One of the God’s greatest miracles is to enable ordinary
people to do extraordinarily things.
Every duty is Holy Devotion to duty,is the highest form of
worship to God.
If God did not forgive, paradise would be empty.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those he
whom he wishes to bless.
If you really want to annoy your enemy keep silent and
leave him alone.
One of the greatest strengths God has given to a human
being is the ability to forget.
If you’re headed in the wrong direction God allows U-
Turn.

35. GREATNESS
A person is pronounced great when he can face a difficult
situation with happiness and laughter.
Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when
it needs to be done,regardless of the consequences.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats a
little man.
A wise man is one who forgets the faults of others, but
always remembers his own.
Small minds are too much hurt by small things great
know they are trifling and are not harmed.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Every great achievement was once considered
impossible.
It is the hour of trial that makes men great,not the hour
of triumph.
True greatness is being great in little things.
The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

36. HAPPINESS
Happiness is never perfect until it is shared.
Think and act cheerfully and you will feel cheerful.
Bring your hearts together, but keep your tents separate.
The secret of happiness is curiosity.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of
laughter.
The most wasted day of all is that on which you have not
laughed.
HARDWORK
Hardwork is the yeast that raises the dough.
He conquers who endures.
Either I will find a way or make one.

37. Success is more often the result of hardwork than of
talent.
I found that I could find the energy…. that I could find the
determination to keep on going. I learn’t that your mind
can amaze your body I just telling yourself. I can do it… I
can do it… I can do it!
If you have hardwork to do, Do it now!
Today the skies are clear and blue,
Tomorrow clouds may come in view.
Yesterday is not for you;Do it now.
When the goings get tough, the tough get going
Build today, when strong and sure with a firm and ample
buse and ascending land secure.
Shall tomorrow find its place.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Whatever the struggle, continue the climb it may be only
one step to the summit.
Winners have a driving force that keeps them winning.

38. Do not grieve over hardship.
Hardship makes the man.
An honest day’s work is the best medicine for all ills.
A two words success story; work works
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and
hang on.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
Hardwork with common sense is success.
If you have done your best,that’s all that matters.
Are you content and satisfied with your efforts? That’s
the only question to ask.
Sitting still and wishing makes no person great.
The good Lord provides the fishes, but you mustdig the
bait.
According to the laws of aerodynamics the bumble bee
cannot fly. I guess no one bothered to tell the bee keep
flying.

39. We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned.
To get more out of life, give more of yourself.
We can’t do much about our appearance, but we have
total control over the kind of person we become.
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
Luck never gives only lends a helping hand to hardwork
on its way to success.
Wear out,do not rust away.
Miracles do occur,but one has to work extremely hard
for them. I am a great believer in luck and I find that
harder I work, The more I have of it!
HONESTY
A truly honest man never fancies himself.
If I am honest in all my dealings, I can never experience
fear.

40. Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain, one brings pain at the
moment, the other for all time.
To be persuasive, You must be believable.
To be believable, You must be credible.
To be credible,You mustbe truthful.
HOPE
Never lose hope,
Hope is a rope that swings you through life.
Even a single lamp will dispel darkness.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Never despair,If you do,work on in despair.
IDEA
Nothing dies faster than a new idea in a closed mind.

41. The human mind is like a parachute, it only works when it
is open.
Start a positive thoughts factory.
Ideas, like time and tide, wait for no one.
Do not wait for the best idea. Implement the better idea
and the best will follow.
IMPRESSIONS
Children are like wet cement.
Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
What people say behind your back is your standing in the
community.
JOB
Choose a job you love. And you will never have to work a
day in your life.

42. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you
cannot do.
A man rarely succeeds at anytime unless he has fun
doing it.
If two men on the same job agree all the time then one is
useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are
useless.
KNOWLEDGE
It is better to learn from the experience of others.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is
not subject to diminishing returns.
Those who don’t read good boks have no advantage over
those who can’t.
Strange, how much you’ve got to know before you know
how little you know.
The one who had the most information was the one
likely to get the most information in return.

43. LISTENING
The less you speak the more you are listened to.
If people listened to themselves more often they would
talk less.
Learn by listening…Understand by reflecting.
LEADERSHIP
Never break a person’s rice bowl or let him lose his face.
Accept praises with humility because you must not forget
that, backstage,you have a whole lot of team mates who
helped you achieve all that you have.
Speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
No rebuke is so powerful as the influence of good
examples.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

44. LEARNING
Never stop listening…..learning….training.
When our small children hit a table, we blame the !
Wrong Training
Men learn while they teach.
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the
fool does from his friends.
None teaches better than the ant, who says nothing.
There’s no limit to what you can achieve if you don’t
mind who gets the credit.
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Keep on learning from your successes, so you repeat
them; from your failures. So you never make the same
one twice.
Follow no one but learn from everyone.
Difficulty is a severe instructor.

45. You will learn more often about a road by travelling it
than by consulting all the maps in the world.
“Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your action.”
Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know
but need to know so learn from them.
When you see a good man, think of emulating him, when
you see a bad man, examine your own heart.
LETHARGY
Even if you’re on the right will track, you will get run over
if you just sit there.
Do important jobs now before they became urgent.
Our trouble is not ignorance but in action.
Procastination is the thief of time. It kills development.

46. Action kills the anxiety caused by procrastination.
You won’t win…. If you don’t begin!
LIFE
Life is just like a drama.
If I understand the plot there is great happiness.
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with
the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the
sky. Sometimes there were two sets of foot prints, other
times there were only one. This bothered me because I
noted that during the low periods of my life, when I was
suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat . I could see
only one set of footprints.
So I said to the Lord, ”you promised me, Lord, that if I
followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have
noticed that during the most trying periods of my life
there has been only one set of footprints in the sand
why, when I have needed you most, have not been there
with me?

47. The Lord replied “During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of foot prints, it was then that
I carried you.”
The great challenge of life is to decide what’s important
and to disregard everything else.
As we advance in the life we learn the limits of our
abilities.
The two greatest healers are God and Time.
Do you understand the Tree of Life or do you simply
STAND UNDER its branches?
Some people never mature because of the fear of ageing
and some because they refuse to accept responsibility.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the
moments when you have really lived, are then moments
when you have done things in a spirit of love.
Unblemish let me live
Or die Unknown
Or grant an honest fame.

48. Or Grant me none.
It’s not the years that count as much
It’s not the things you got from life.
But what you gave.
If you want to cheer up yourself.
You should try cheering up someone else.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The greatest service is to share with others the joy of
living.
You should fill your life with experience, not excuses.
You’re not ready to live until you’re ready to die change
yourself and your life will change on its own.
The game of life is a game of bommerangs. Our thoughts,
deeds and words return to us sooner or latter with
astounding accuracy.
Life’s disappointments are “speed bumps”- things you
have to get over in order to enjoy the rest of life’s
journey.

49. No one is guaranteed happiness. Life just, gives each
person enough space. It’s up to us to fill it with joy.
Life is a grindstone whether it grinds you down or
polishes you up, depends on what you are made of.
We come new born to every milestone of life’s journey
and often act like novices at each no matter what our
age.
You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.
People who resign themselves to growing old gracefully,
live longer.
Those who love deeply never grow old.
They die of years but they die young.
What hunger is in relation to food, joy is in relation to
life.
It’s better not to wait for crisis to discover what’s
important in your life.
LUCK

50. The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Luck may bring you riches, but it will never bring wisdom
to you.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets
opportunity.
MANAGEMENT
An organization is a union of ordinary people doing extra
ordinary work.
Delegate but don’t forget.
People don’t waste time.
They just spend it on things they don’t need to.
“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream,
but I find that for some strange reason fish prefer worms.
So when I go fishing. I don’t think about what I want. I
think about what they want.”

51. The mechanics of running a business are really not very
complicated when you get down to essentials. You have
to make some stuff to sell and sell it to some body for
more than it cost you. That’s about all there is to it,
except for a few million details.
Those who only do what they are told are seldom told to
do anything.
Your mind is like an acre of land. Look after it! Hard work
is like filling; good reading acts like fertilizers discipline is
like pesticides.
The used key is always bright.
Jobs don’t have future, people do.
In the long run the most difficult thing is to search for an
easy way out.
If I rely on too many people I increase my chances of
being disappointed.
Before performing any task stop for a moment,think of
the effect it will have and then begin.
No business opportunity is ever lost.
If you fumble it your competitor will find it.

52. Business is like an automobile It won’t run itself, except
downhill.
A problem well defined is half solved.
Working together works and with a smile,
Working together really works faster,better,smoother.
Good managers are not born, they are obtained by
training.
Secret of success in business is surprisingly simple, give
people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
If I had eight hours to chop a tree, I would spend six
hours sharpening my axe.
If you want to get a thing done,
Give it to the busiest executive.
If you want to plan for a year, plant corn.
If you want to plan for 3 years, plant a tree.
But, If you want to plan for 10 years plant men.
You are either growing or going out of business.

53. Selling is once. Marketing is when it is sold again and
again and again.
Think objectively and keep a sense of humour.
Make the business fun for you and others.
Indecision is often worse than wrong action.
Over-planning look for it and kill it.
Be patient while analyzing and impatient while
executing.
Business is a “get things done” situation.
You cannot be successful in any business without
believing it is the greatest business in the world. You
have to put your heart in the business and the business
in your heart.
Entrepreneurs are people with great imagination.
That was yesterday.What are you doing today to keep us
in business tomorrow.
Many people confuse faulty planning & bad management
with hard luck.

54. Managers have to weld together the functions of critic
judge and active participator.
The bottleneck is at the head of the bottle.No business is
likely to be better than its top management.
In the last analysis management’s essence is not knowing
but doing.
A professional is someone who can do his best work
when he does not feel like it.
MANNERS
Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good
manners
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with
other peoples bad manners.
MIND

55. We all speak well of our hearts why none of us dare to
speak well of our minds.
Everyone complains of his memory and no one complains
of his judgement.
An open mind collects more riches than an open purse.
MISTAKES
It’s best to be decisive, even if it mean you’ll some times
be wrong.
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything.
We ought to be able to learn some things second hand.
There is not enough time for us to make all the mistakes
ourselves.
If a melon clashes with a knife it is suicide and not
heroism.

56. Managers trend to make their biggest mistakes in things
they’ve previously done best.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is
indeed mistaken. But the man who thinks the world
cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
The trouble with opportunity is it always come disguised
as hardwork.
Seek opportunity not security a boat in the harbour is
safe but time its bottom will rot.
If opportunity does not knock,build a door.
If you need a new process and you do not install it, you
pay for it without getting it.
MONEY
People who never loose sleep over money hardly make
any.
OPPORTUNITY

57. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
When fate hate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make a
lemonade.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the for of
misfortune or temporary defeat.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door knock rather on
opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
Success doesn’t come to you you go to it.
With every dawning of the sun.
New possibilities have just begun.
With every breaking of the morn
Fresh opportunities are newly born.
The people who get on in this world…are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want and
if they can’t find them make them!
Where appears to be the end, may really be a new
beginning.

58. Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only
looking for a lucky break.
When one door of happiness closes another opens but
often we look so long at the closed door that we do not
see the one which is opened for you.
Never fear shadows they simply mean that there is a light
shining some where nearby.
The difference between you and me is only one one of
hearing where you hear a door close, I hear it open.
Crossing your bridges when you come to them and
exploiting opportunities when they come your way are
real secrets of success in this world.
If the camel I hadn’t knelt down. It couldn’t have been
loaded.
All experiences are opportunities to learn and grow.
When fate shuts a door come in through window.
The reason many people fail to recognize opportunities is
because it comes disguised as hardwork.
If you keep waiting for just the right time,

59. You may never begin. Begin now! Begin where you are
with what you are.
You never know what you can do till you try.
Awareness is a major key to success. Keep your radar
finely tuned. You never know where a good idea will
come from or how far it will take you.
Every day we are given stones, but what do we build? Is
it a bridge or a wall?
You will never face a problem that’s not charged with
opportunity.
Nature creates ability luck endows it with opportunity.
Love towards sun-shine and the shadow will disappear.
PAST PRESENT & FUTURE
You shouldn’t look back except to learn.
If I cling to the past, the present becomes difficult and
the future seems impossible.

60. If through some error yesterday was lost in grief don’t
lose today by keeping it in your memory.
If you miss an opporturnity do not cloud your eyes with
tears,keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the
next one.
What I experience now is a result of the past what I
experience in future depends on what I do NOW.
The fool said, “I have ruined my past and to my present.”
The wise man said” but the future is still safe.”
If you cannot appreciate what you have at the moment
how can you value what the future has in store.
As thoughts are the seeds of all the actions let me plant
only good pure seeds so that the fruit will be the best.
Yesterday is a Cancelled cheque,
Tomorrow is a Promissory note,
Today is ready cash… Use it!
If we get involved in fears about the future,
We shall miss the chances that the present offers us.

61. A young man who graduated yesterday and stopped
learning today will become uneducated tomorrow!
Always do your best.
What you plant now,you will harvest latter.
Only after you awake do you realize you were sleeping.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only vision, but
today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness and every tomorrow is vision of hope look
well,therefore to this day.
If you look for the worst in life and in people you’ll find it
. But if you look for the best, you’ll find that instead.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it.
When some one hurts your feelings its unimportant
unless you persist in remembering it.
Do not postpone the unpleasant and difficult tasks. Do
them now you will feel much better afterwards.
I can’t change the past,but I can let it go.

62. You better pay attention to your future because you are
going to spend a lot of time there.
It is a good thing that God does not let you otherwise you
may be tempted to shoot yourself.
Today is the future I created yesterday.
If you’re doing your best, you won’t have anytime to
worry about failure.
At present how can you see the future if you live in the
past?
I am as successful as I make up mind to be.
Everyone of us has in him a continent of undiscovered
talent, blessed is he who acts the COLUMBUS of his own
soul.
PEACE
If we cannot find peace inside ourselves it is useless to
look for it elsewhere.

63. PEOPLE
People can be divided into three groups:-
Those who make things happen;
Those who watch things happen;
Those who wonder what happened.
Your name is your trademark, Protect it as if it is your life.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamedof,
he always declares that it is his duty.
Don’t worry over what other people are thinking about
you. They are busy worrying over what you are thinking
about them.
Unless they share our opinions we seldom find people
sensible.
Agreements cannot perform only people can.
PERCEPTION

64. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
Success begins with a fellow’s will. It’s all in the state of
mind! If you think you are out classed you are You’ve got
to be sure of yourself before. You can ever win a prize
life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster
man, but soon or late the man who wins is the man who
thinks he can!
Good taste is more a matter of judgement than of
intellect.
Do not believe your ears, as eye sight will give you clear
picture.
The important thing is not what others think of me, but
what I think of me.
There can be no view points without a view.
Things look different depending upon where you stand.
PRAISE

65. Very fortunate is the one who has learned to admire but
not to envy.
A person’s true character is so often revealed by the
manner in which he receives praises.
PROBLEMS
Big problems always start out small.
Be moderate in praising a man when he is present but
give him full credit when he is absent.
If you wait until all conditions are perfect before you act.
You’ll never act.
If there were no problems,
There would be no opportunities.
Every stone can be a stepping stone.
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
Nor man without trials.

66. Problems are only solutions in disguise.
If it were not for the rock in its bed, the stream would
have no song.
Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions, they’re more
easily handled than dumb mistakes.
The more problems you have the more alive you are!
If someone pelts you with stones, do not quarrel with
him. Try rather to raise yourself to such a height that the
stones cannot reach you.
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution,
It’s that they can’t see the problem.
When you are looking for answers always be ready for
surprises.
It is easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of
trouble.
To get the right answer you have to ask the right
question.
Pick and choose the battles you fight and don’t make
every problem a war.

67. My life has been full of misfortunes most of which never
happened.
Too much is a great danger as too little.
It is the first step that is difficult.
The sharpener the storm, the sooner it’s over.
Expect the unexpected.
Most of the things you worry about never happen.
A problem well defined is half solved.
The bad thing about good things is that they come to an
end. The good thing about bad things is that they also
come to an end.
PROMISE
Try to understand the difference between “done” and
“will be done”.
Many cloudy days end with a glorious sunset as all nights
with dawn.

68. Never cut what you can untie.
The best way out of difficulty is to go through it.
Promise only what you can deliver.
Then deliver more than you promise.
We make promises to the extent that we hope and keep
them to the extent that we fear.
Always vote for the person who promises the least. You
will be disappointed less.
The slowest in promising is always the most faithful in
fulfilling.
QUALITY
Quality improvement is built on getting everyone to “do
it right the first time.”
A company’s commitment to quality makes people proud
to work there.
Nothing attracts customers like quality.

69. Commitment to quality can be a great rallying force.
Quality only happens when you care enough to do your
best.
The system for creating quality is preventing not
appraisal.
When you’re out of quality you’re out of business.
There is only one way to have a successful company to
have a lot of happy, satisfied customers.
Quality is never having to say you’re sorry.
The difference in failure and success is doing a thing
nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Quality is not a department responsibility.
Quality is everyone and everything within an
organization.
Customers are loyal to quality not the company.
Quality goes up when managementhas high
expectations for their staff.
There is always a better way your challenge is to find it.

70. Excellence implies more than competence… it implies a
striving for the highest possible standards.
It’s amazing how close to perfection you can get if you
are willing to try
QUITING
It’s best not to quit at quitting time.
RESPECT
Pride exists equally in all men; the only difference lies in
what ways they manifest it.
Other people respect me because I respect myself.
The only way to gain respect is firstly to give it self-
respect knows no considerations.
No one can ever insult you when you know your own
worth.

71. To have respect for the self and for God makes it easy to
appreciate other human beings.
RISKS
You can’t be a hero without taking chances.
Do the thing that you fear and fear will disappear.
Those who’ll play with cats mustexpect to be scratched.
Most men take sufficient risks in war to maintain their
honour, but few choose to take further risks that means
victory for the enterprise in which they already risked
something.
The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross
and which bridge to burn.
SATISFACTION
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

72. When we have not what we like, we mustlike what we
have.
If you can’t get what you want, want what you can get.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the
end. It’s not a day when you lounge about doing nothing;
it’s a day when you have had everything to do and you
have done it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
SILENCE
By Silence, I hear other men’s imperfection and conceal
my own.
SIMPLICITY
One should be simple, but not stupid.

73. Be yourself be natural. It far easier than pretending to be
someone else.
The simple things are often the most satisfying.
Big achievements can only be made by he who is content
to start with a small beginning and then take it from
there.
STITCH IN TIME
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed, as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
The world’s largest fires can be extinguished by pouring a
cup of water at the right time.
Beware of small expenses a small leak can sink a ship.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
SUCCESS

74. We all must face problems, but it is how you face them
that counts.
To be really independent means not even to lean on
excuses.
Rule of success:
Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you when
things go wrong.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of your life and when
it comes, hold your head high look it squarely in the eye
and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat
me.”
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do
what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done,
this is happiness, this is success.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to
success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It over
comes almost everything, even nature.
Success seems to be connected with action successful
men keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

75. Take ups and downs with equanimity.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the
day you stop making excuses, that’s the day you start to
the top.
Take time to work. It is the price of success.
Take time to think. It is the source of power.
Take time to read. It is the foundation of wisdom.
“Success is a journey, not a destination,
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of
the road” for then the journey is over and it is too late.
The time for happiness is today, not tomorrow.
Success comes in “Cans”.
Failure comes in “ Cant’s ”.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top…!
What happens to good people when bad things happen
to them? They become… better people!
There’s no elevator to success. You have to take to
stairs.

76. Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you
are about your own success.
Not in time, place or circumstances, but in the man lies
success.
Do not allow anything to be obstacle.
See everthing as a stepping stone to victory.
Think like a man of action,
Act like a man of thought.
Coming together is a beginning;
Keeping together is progress;
Working together is success.
People tend to look upon successful people as they
appear to be now. They overlook the many years of
hardwork, failure, frustrations and problems all
encountered, lots conquered all along the way.
It is not the orders you hope to get, but the orders you
get that count.

77. Pussy cats don’t close sales but Tigers close sales and
make friends! Learn to close like a tiger and make more
sales!
For the resolute and determined there is a plenty of time
and opportunity.
Be large at heart and succeed. Be small at heart and fail.
The most successful in war is one who disarms the
enemy in such a way that he has no strength left to fight.
Success without honor is like food without salt… It will
satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
These men and women who changed the world did not
have any-more hours a day than you and I. I’m convinced
judicious use of time is one of the major contributors to
success.
To climb steep hills, requires slow pace at first.
As you climb the ladder of success be sure it’s leaning
against the right building.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing
theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you.

78. But make allowance for their doubting too, if you can
wait and not be tired of waiting, Or being lied about,
don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to
hating, And yet don’t look too good, not too wise.
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools Or watch the
things you gave your life to, broken, and stop and builds
up with worn-out tools. If you can make one heap of all
your winnings. And risk it on one turn of pitch-and toss,
and lose and start again at your beginnings and never
breathe a word about your loss; if you can force your
heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after
they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in
you except the will which says to them ”Hold on!”
If you can dream and not make dreams your masters. If
you can think and not make thoughts your aim. If you can
meet with Triumph and Disasterand treat those two
imposters just the same.

79. Lord Ganeshjee’s BIG HEAD inspires us to think big and
think profitibaly. The BIG EARS prompt us to listen
patiently to new ideas and suggestions, the NARROW
EYES point to deep concentration needed to finish tasks
in hand well and quickly the LONG NOSE tells us to poke
around inquisitively to learn more and the SMALL
MOUTH reminds us to speak less and listen more.
Success is just a matter of an idea backed by initiative
and efforts.
Success often makes more enemies than friends.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
A dictionary is the only place where success appears
before work.
Success is what gives confidence to practice what failure
has taught us.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken. The
greatest loss is the loss of self-confidence.
Success is not a result of spontaneous combustion, you
have to set yourself on fire

80. THINK
If you think you are beaten you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost.
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you’re outclassed. You are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

81. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster
man, But sooner or later the man wins is the man WHO
THINKS HE CAN!
They are able those who think they are!
THEORY VS PRACTICE
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of
preaching.
Good advice is hard to give but even harder to follow.
Words gain creditability by deeds.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness,because no amount of darkness can blow the
candle away.
You may say you KNOW
But by you actions it is KNOWN.

82. TRUST
If we did trust people, we justify they are deceiving us.
Self trust is the key to success.
TIME
Those who are pulling on the oars don’t have much time
to rock the boat.
Even though you cannot change time realize it is time to
change.
You wil never “find” time for anything…
If you want time,you must “make” it!
Try to complete the least urgent in the time you have
allowed yourself because left-over tasks steal part of
tomorrow’s time.
Time will not adjust with you,

83. You have to adjust to it.
If you have an hour to spare,
Don’t spend it with someone who hasn’t.
Keep a note pad and pencil near your bedside table.
Million dollar ideas some times strike at 3 a.m.
WEALTH
The wealth of a rich man can be stolen or burnt, but the
happiness and wisdom of the wise remain.
If wealth is lost, nothing is lost.
If health is lost, something is lost.
If character is lost, all is lost.
One’s greates wealth is the freedom to choose.
If a society loses its moral values, it loses everything.

84. Education,experience and memories are three things no
one can take away from you.
Wealth lost Something lost.
Honor lost Much lost.
Courage lost All lost.
WINNER
The winner is a part of the answer,
The loser is always a part of the problem.
The winner says” It may be difficult but it’s possible”.
The loser says ”It may be possible but its difficult.”
The winner says ”let me do it for you,”
The loser says “that’s not my job.”
The winner always has a plan.
The loser always has an excuse.
The winner sees an answer in every problem.

85. The loser sees problem in every answer.
WILL
A will finds a way.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with
which the force is directed.
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very
source of his power.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes
from an indomitable will.
Whatever the mind of a man can conceive & believe…. It
can Achieve!
You must fight for the things you believe in.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
To convince others, you have to convince yourself.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.
Motivation is what gets you started,

86. Will-Power is what keeps you going.
WISDOM
Wisdom lies not in the amount of knowledge acquired
but in the degree of its application.
Remember you get anything in life if you help enough
other people to get what they want from life.
Better ask twice than go wrong.
Wise are those who realize that the bottom line does not
have to be their top priority.
Show endurance in humiliation and bear no grudge.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more
perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in it’s success
than to take a lead in the introduction of a new order of
things.
The greatest power is often simple patience.

87. The more original the discovery, the more obvious it
seems afterwards.
One good thing about being young is that you are not
experienced enough to know that you cannot possibly do
the things you are doing.
The impossible is often the untried.
ANYWAY
What you spend years building may be destroyed
overnight. Build Anyway.
Honesty and Frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank Anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do
good Anyway.
People are unreasonable illogical and self-centered. Love
them Anyway.

88. The biggest people with the biggestideas can be shot
down by the smallestpeople with the smallest minds.
Think big Anyway.
What’s new may be so or may be old ideas in new forms.
Try the new Anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true
enemies. Succeed Anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs fight for
some under dogs Anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse of selfish ulterior
motives. Do good Anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in
teeth. Give the world the best you have Anyway.
JACK WELCH’S SIX RULES
FACE REALITY AS IT IS NOT AS IT WAS OR
AS YOU WISH IT WERE.

89. BE CANDID WITH EVERYONE.
DON’T MANAGE LEAD.
CHANGE BEFORE YOU HAVE TO.
IF YOU DON’T HAVE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGEDON’T
COMPETE.
CONTROL YOUR OWN DESTINY OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL
IT COULDN’T BE DONE
Some body said that it couldn’t be done but he with a
chuckled replied That “may be it couldn’t “ but he would
be one who wouldn’t say so till he tried so he buckled

90. right in with trace of a grin on his face. If he was worried
he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing that
couldn’t be done and he did it.
Somebody scoffed “Oh you’ll never do that Atleast no
one ever has done it.” But he took off his coat and he
took off his hat, and the first thing we knew he’d begun
it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin without any
doubting or quiddity, He started t sing as the tackled the
thing that couldn’t be done and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done. There
are thousands to prophesy failure.
There are thousands to point out to you one by one. The
dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a
bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it. Just start
in to sing as you tackle the thing. That “cannot be done”,
and you will do it.
FROM MINUTES TO ETERNITY

91. Little drops of water…
Little grains of sand…
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes
Humble though they be…. Make the mighty ages of
ETERNITY!
GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF JRD TATA
Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep
thought and hardwork.
One must think for oneself and never accept at their face
value, slogans and catchy phrases to which unfortunately
our people are too easily succeptible.

92. One must for ever strive for excellence or even
perfection in any task however small and never be
satisfied with the second best.
No success or achievement is material terms is
worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interest of the
country and its people and achieved by fair and honest
means.
Good human relations not only bring great personal
rewards, but are essential to the success of any
enterprise.
ATTITUDE
“ The longer I live the more I realize the impact of
attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than
the past, than education, than money than
circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what

93. other people think or say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a
company…. A church… A home. The remarkable thing is
we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We
cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain
way. We cannot change the envitable. The only thing we
can do is play the one string we have and that is our
attitude…. I am convinced that life is 10% of what
happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with
you…. We are in change of our Attitudes”.