"If its to be, Its upto Me"

Collection of My daily Quotes.....

2008-10-24T03:14:00.003+05:30

You are what you speak, see, hear and read.

Reading should be one of the most important habits of human beings.

I personally believe books are mirror and reading inspirational books have changed my way of thinking for better.

Following are list of quotes which i update on a regular basis in this post.

"Prayer requires more of your heart and less of your tongue. Its a daily admission of your weakness. Your prayers are answered only when you rise from prayer better human being"

"Most often our relationships break-up because we fail to understand that if we cant handle someone at their worst, then we don’t deserve them at their best"

Knowing What you Want........

2008-10-16T03:33:00.000+05:30

He was born in Bangalore and had a dream of becoming a veterinary doctor. But when his elder brother once showed him the world of internet, his fascination started. He was enthralled by the power of the internet, web, email and all. Within a year, he had taught himself how to create and design a website, HTML, ASP and all other related software that he could lay his hands on.

He was a ‘good’ student at academics till then but became an average student when he started exploring his new found world in cyber cafes. And that was when he started coolhindustan.com along with his friends (He abandoned that project when it was hacked and the logo was changed to coolpakistan.com).

To start that he needed money but his parents refused to invest. He then wrote to Network Solutions headquartered in California, and they readily agreed and offered him a job and would also have paid for his education in US. But all he said was “NO”.
He wanted to do the stuff for his own company rather than for others.

He was 14 years young when he made this choice… perhaps that was when he became an entrepreneur.

When an American company invited him to their headquarters so he could maintain their web site, he is said to have declined on the ground that he was not interested in serving a non-Indian company. However in 2000, at the age of 14 Mr. Gopinath traveled to the United States to found Globals Inc. in San Jose, California, as the laws in India did not allow a minor to set up a company.

Suhas Gopinath (born November 4, 1986) is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO, and President of Globals Inc., an IT company.

He is recognized as "the world's youngest CEO" because he was the youngest ever person to incorporate a company at the age of 14. In 2003 Globals Inc. lost a business deal with Signet Inc, a BPO company in Singapore reportedly because the then 17-year-old CEO was too young to sign a memorandum of understanding.

The company expanded from 4 people to 400. In 2005, a Houston Investment firm approached him and offered 1 Billion $ for a majority stake. The answer was “NO” and he said “Why should I sell my baby?”

In 2005 Mr. Gopinath was one of the finalists of the Infosys Education World Young Achievers Award. The same year he was the youngest among the 175 recipients of the state's Rajyotsava Award. Mr. Gopinath is also a brand ambassador for PETA.

On December 2, 2007, The European Parliament and International Association for Human Values conferred a “Young Achiever Award” on Mr. Gopinath at the European Parliament, Brussels. He was invited to address the European Parliament and businessmen assembled in that parliament.

Mr. Gopinath was announced as a “Young Global Leader” for 2008-2009 by the World Economic Forum, Davos.

AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGLORE: -
Suhas was at the gates, on his way to the auditorium to attend the seminar on ‘The Education System in India’ when a security person did not allow him to enter as he was very young and didn’t have an ID. He said to Suhas that it was a seminar, only for CEOs .
Suhas said ”I don’t have my ID card but here are the visiting cards of the people I know“.
Just a few calls and he was in, not in the audience but on the dais.

He is now completing his bachelor’s degree in Information Science in Bangalore. He even grew his Mustache to camouflage his student looks. And he has already applied for a course in artificial intelligence at Stanford University (and hopes to see his icon Bill Gates).
Once asked to give a message to would-be entrepreneurs, he replied “I don’t think that I am mature enough to advise others, but if you have it in you, go for it. One should also make time to enjoy other things in life. With work, you get too busy to even repent”.

At present, the average age of the employees in his company is around 21. The senior most employee is 26 yrs old with the youngest being 12 yrs, (Obviously they will not allow the youngest to do a full time job, abiding by the Child labor Act) who does web designing for them.
Suhas believes "Enterprise is more important than high academic qualifications".

Get a MBA...Get a MBA...Get a MBA

2008-10-14T14:51:00.000+05:30

Rahul Bajaj has it, Lakshmi Mittal doesn’t; do we really need an MBA?

More than 1,400 management schools in India churn out about 140,000 MBA graduates every year. But gauging by the way young people are climbing the corporate ladder, there seem to be plenty without an MBA degree.

Consider even the best-known of names. Bill Gates, founder of technology giant Microsoft Corp., who left Harvard University. Steel giant Lakshmi Mittal holds only a bachelor’s degree in commerce. N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of India’s second largest information technology (IT) services company, Infosys Technologies Ltd, is an engineer by qualification.
But then, there are Louis V. Gerstner, credited with turning around IT giant International Business Machines Corp., and Rahul Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto Ltd—both from Harvard Business School (HBS). Jerry Rao, founder of Mphasis Ltd, an IT firm acquired by Texas-based Electronic Data Systems Corp., graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A).

So, do we really need an MBA to start or eventually run a company?

No, is the short answer. But probe a little deeper, and those in business seem to agree that it definitely helps.

None of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies has an MBA—yet even current chief executive and managing director S. Gopalakrishnan says it helps. “It is not necessary to have an MBA degree to start a company or run a large organization. But an MBA definitely helps a person understand ‘how a business works’ faster, through theoretical and practical learning across different business aspects.”

According to Subroto Bagchi, co-founder of IT services firm MindTree Ltd, it is not an MBA that matters, but what one learns from it. Not that he speaks from academic experience.