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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. – Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. – Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. - Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC), De Amicitia

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. – Colette (1873 – 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works. - Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07

Have no friends not equal to yourself. – Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. – Czech Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. - Dame Edna Everage

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his. – Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington (1732 – 1799)

Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986)

N R Narayana Murthy, the Chief Mentor of Infosys, recently said the company has provided Rs 50,000 crore (at current stock prices) of stock options to its employees since inception.

Murthy said, “I do not know of any Indian company that has given away as much as Rs 50,000 crore (at current stock prices) of stock options to employees”.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

Murthy is stepping down as non-executive Chairman and Chief Mentor on August 20 this year when he turns 65. He has been named Chairman-emeritus for life by the board of the company, which is completing 30 years in 2011.

Murthy said Infosys had demonstrated that businesses can be run legally and ethically; that it was possible for an Indian company to benchmark with the global best; and that any set of youngsters with values, hard work, team work and a little bit of smartness can indeed be successful entrepreneurs.

“This way, we have enthused millions of young men and women in India. This, in my opinion, is Infosys” greatest contribution”, he said.

“The crucial things we have to do in the future are: recognise our weaknesses, be open-minded about learning from people better than us; learn from our mistakes and not repeat them; be humble, honest and courteous; benchmark with the best in every dimension; use innovation to perform at global levels; and create a worthwhile vision and improve every day”, Murthy said.

Murthy added, “This is how our mantra of focusing on speed, imagination and excellence in execution will take this company very far”.

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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.  It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.  – Napoleon Bonaparte

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.  – Robert MacIver

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. – Jesse Jackson

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve

This nation was built by men who took risks – pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.  – Brooks Atkinson

Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.  – Author Unknown

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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. - Blaine Lee

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. – Andre Maurois

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. – Jeff Bezos

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. – Charles A. Jaffe

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. – Alvin Toffler

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. – Alexis de Tocqueville

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton

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Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs. – Joan Didion

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s a vanity to candor that isn’t really worth it. Be kind. – Richard Greenberg

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. – William Carleton

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewing

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. – W. Somerset Maugham

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. – Corra Harris

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. – Isaac Newton

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. – Pearl Buck

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A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. – Ann Radcliffe

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. – Adam Cooper and Bill Collage

The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. – Denis Diderot

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. – Homer

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright