Daily (ish) or maybe weekly (ish) inspiration

[RickyRaj]

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
Marilu Henner, actress

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France, poet

My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.
Michael J. Fox, actor

[RickyRaj]

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success.
Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen.
Bradley Whitford, actor

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
Helen Keller, writer

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe, tennis player

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Advice from a Tree

- Stand tall and proud
- Go out on a limb
- Remember your roots
- Drink plenty of water
- Be content with your natural beauty
- Enjoy the view

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Dress like JFK
Speak like Hemingway
Work like Ralph Lauren
Party like Gatsby

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When I'm sad I stop being sad, and be awesome instead.

True Story :)

Barney Stinson - How I met your mother

[RickyRaj]

If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there; you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee, martial artist

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert Pirsig, author

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Jean Petit-Senn, poet

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Current Economics Explained

MARY is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She realises that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronise her bar – she will go broke.

To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but p*y later.

She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Mary's 'drink now, p*y later' marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Mary's bar.

Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Dublin — all is starting to look rosy.

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands Mary gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.

Consequently, Mary's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognises that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Mary's borrowing limit.

He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into Drinkbonds and Alkibonds. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets.

The new investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as 'AAA' secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. They have had a 'rating house' certify they are of good quality.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Mary's bar. He so informs Mary.

Mary then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but, being unemployed alcoholics, they cannot p*y back their drinking debts.

Since Mary cannot fulfil her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. So she now is broke.

The bar closes and the 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, Drinkbonds and Alkibonds drop in price by 90%.

The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Mary's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the various Bond securities. They find they are now faced with having to write-off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations. Her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion euro, no-stringsattached cash infusion from their cronies in government.

The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Mary's bar.

Now, do you understand current economics ?

[RickyRaj]

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Lady Bird Johnson, first lady

When there's nothing to lose and much to gain by trying, try.
Clement Stone, author

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. ... The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela, statesman

[RickyRaj]

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney, entertainment whiz

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch, financier

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.
Roy Acuff, musician

Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams, physician

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