Bill Gates Intial days

On January 1, 1979, Bill Gates moved Microsoft and its sixteen employees from Albuquerque to Seattle, Washington. Gates thought that recruiting programmers would be easier from this site. Microsoft developed a standard for hiring new employees. Only the most gifted and intelligent new college graduates would be hired. Little job experience was considered positive from Microsoft's point of view. An employee with little experience would have no bias'.

The expansion of personnel lead to the development of a Microsoft spreadsheet program and Microsoft Word. Interests in graphical interfaces were realized. In 1981, Gates purchased the SCP-DOS operating system from Seattle Computer Products, later modifying the operating system to MS-DOS. Gates made a deal with IBM to write an operating system for its new line of personal computers, and in 1981, MS-DOS was shipped on all new IBM PC's. Microsoft made additional technological breakthroughs in the 1980's. In April, 1983, Microsoft introduced the "mouse" and in November 1983, a graphical user interface known as "Windows" was introduced.

On March 13, 1986, Microsoft went public on the Stock Exchange. The initial offering for a share of Microsoft stock was $21.00 per share. Bill Gates became an instant millionaire. At thirty-one, Gates joined the Gatesionaires club and became the richest man in the United States.

Luck

**Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks

they**** **** deserve?***

By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire

 

 

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer:

 

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some

people are always in the right place at the right time, while others

consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national

newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to

contact me.

 

Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and

over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had

them take part in experiments.

 

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight

into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are

responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of

seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such

opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

 

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to

differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both

lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it

and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a

large message halfway through the  n ewspaper saying: "Tell the

experimenter you have seen this and win £250."

 

This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was

more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face,

but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to

spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and

this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.

 

As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on

looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their

perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They

look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job

advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

 

**Lucky people are more relaxed and open**, and therefore see what is

there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually

revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles.

**They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make

lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling

prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude

that transforms bad luck into good.***

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Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could

be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a

month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like

a lucky person.

 

Dramatic results These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities,

listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to

bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what

had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier,

more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.

 

The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become

lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor"

 

 

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:

**1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right***

**2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine**

**3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well**

**4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or

telephone call. Luck is very often a self- fulfilling prophecy**

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Have a Lucky day and work for it.

Filling a Sieve With Water !!

The Teacher had given a discourse on creative thinking. Afterwards his disciples approached him and asked him to set them a problem that required them to think creatively. The sage gave them a sieve and asked them to fill it with water at the sea, nearby. They were gone for a long time. Finally he went down to the beach to see what they were doing, and found them seated morosely around the sieve. They scrambled to their feet when they saw him. “You’ve set us an impossible task, sir,” said the oldest of the disciples. “It’s just not possible to fill a sieve with water.” “Are you sure?” asked the Teacher, picking up the sieve. “Sometimes it helps to step back and view the problem from a different angle.” He waded into the water and threw the sieve far out into the sea. It sank. “There!” said the Teacher. “It’s full of water now.” It is very important to look at a problem from different angles in order to find the best & optimum solution, when we think with this attitude we can see that there is no problem that has no solution! J

Definitions of a Kiss

Prof .of Economics Kiss is that thing for which the demand is aways higher than the supply.   ******* Prof. Of Accountancy Kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.   ******* Prof. Of Algebra Kiss is infinity because two divided by nothing.   ******* Prof. Of Geometry Kiss is the shortest distance between two lips.   ******* Prof. Of Physics Kiss is the contraction of mouth due to the expansion of the heart.   ******* Prof. Of Chemistry Kiss is the reaction of the interaction between two hearts.   ******* Prof. Of Zoology Kiss is the interchange of salivary bacteria.   ******* Prof. Of Physiology Kiss is the juxtaposition of two orbicularisoris muscles in the state of contraction.   ******* Prof. Of Dentistry Kiss is infectious and antiseptic.   ******* Prof. Of Philosophy Kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and homage for the old.   ******* Prof. Of English Kiss is a noun that is used as a conjunction, it is more common than proper, it is spoken in the plural and it is applicable to all.   ******* Prof. Of Architecture Kiss is a process which builds a solid bond between the two dynamic objects   ******* Prof. Of Comp.Science What is a kiss? It seems to be an undefined variable   *******

THIS IS HOW WE MISS OUT SOMETHING CALLED "LIFE"

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.

He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter. The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband. When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just five words.

QUESTIONS :
1. What were the five words ?
2. What is the implication of this story?

ANSWER :
The husband just said "I am with you Darling"

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother.
Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened. No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world. " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

This story is really worth reading. ..... Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know.
By this way we miss out something called L.I.F.E.
HAPPY LIVING LIFE.

26 Reasons Why Men Have 2 Dogs and Not 2 Wives ( humor )

1. The later you come home the more excited your dogs are to see you.     *********     2. Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs.     *********     3. If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don`t hate it.     *********     4. Dogs don`t notice if you call them by another dog`s name.     *********     5. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.     *********     6. A dog`s parents never visit.     *********     7. Dogs do not hate their bodies.     *********     8. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.   *********     9. Dogs like to do their snooping outside rather than in your wallet or desk.     *********     10. Dogs seldom outlive you.     *********     11. Dogs can`t talk.     *********     12. You never have to wait for a dog; they`re ready to go 24 hours a day.     *********     13. Dogs find you amusing when you`re drunk.     *********     14. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.     *********     15. Another man will seldom steal your dog.     *********     16. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?"     *********     17. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.     *********     18. A dog will let you put a studded collar and a leash on it without calling you a pervert.     *********     19. A dog won`t hold out on you to get a new car.     *********     20. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don`t get mad. They just think it`s interesting.     *********     21. On a car trip, your dog never insists on running the heater.     *********     22. Dogs don`t let magazine articles guide their lives.     *********     23. When your dog gets old, you can have it put to sleep.     *********     24. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pickup truck.     *********     25. Dogs are not allowed in Maceys, Bloomingdales or Neiman-Marcus.     *********       And, last but not least:     26. If a dog leaves, it won`t take half of your stuff.   *********