Monday, January 19, 2009

A note from Warren Buffet...

We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism. Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations.

Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the financial experts to provide them with remedies, forgetting the fact that it is these experts who created this financial mess.
 
Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older. This year, I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me, and become financially wiser.

Hard work: All hard work brings profit; but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Laziness: A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.
Earnings: Never depend on a single source of income.
Spending: If you buy things you don
't need, you 'll soon sell things you need.
Savings: Don
't save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving.
Borrowings: The borrower becomes the lender
's slave.
Accounting: It
's no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.
Auditing: Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a large ship.
Risk-taking: Never test the depth of the river with both feet.
Investment: Don
't put all your eggs in one basket.
 
I
'm certain that those who have already been practicing these Principles remain financially healthy. I 'm equally confident that those who resolve to start practicing these principles will quickly regain their financial health. 
Let us become wiser and lead a happy, healthy, prosperous and Peaceful life. 

 - Warren Buffet

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

TODAY!!!!!!

Today I will delete from my dairy
two days: yesterday and tomorrow.

Yesterday was to learn
and tomorrow will be the consequence 
of what I can do today!

Today I will face life
with the conviction that this day
will not return.

Today I will be brave enough
not to let any opportunity pass me by,
my only alternative is to succeed.

Today I will invest
my most valuable resource: my time,
in the most transcendental work: 
my life;

I will spend each minute
passionately to make 
of today a different
and unique day in my life.

Today I will deny every obstacle 
that appears on my way trusting 
I will succeed.

Today I will resist 
pessimism and will conquer 
the world with a smile,
with the positive attitude 
of expecting always the best. 

Today I will have my feet on the ground
understanding reality
and the stars' gaze
to invent my future.

Today I will take the time to be happy 
and will leave my footprints and my presence 
in the hearts of others.

Today, I invite you to begin a new season 
where we can dream 
that everything we undertake is possible 
and we fulfil it,
with joy and dignity.