212 Degree

212 Degree

At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils.With boiling water comes steam and steam can power a locomotive. One extra degree.......makes all the difference. And, the one extra degree of effort in business and in life...separates the good from the great!

The average margin of victory for the last 25 years in all major tournament combined was less than three strokes. The margin for victory between an Olympic Gold Medal and no medal at all is extremely small. In 2004 mens 800m race the margin of victory was 0.71 seconds. At the Indy 500....The average margin for victory from the past 10years has been 1.54 seconds. On average the winner took home $1,278,813 and the second place prize was $621,321, a difference of $657492.

Its your life....You are responsible for your results. Its time to turn up the heat. To get whatever we've never had we must do what we've never done.

212 degree Attitude : The only thing that stands between the person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it possible.

212 degree Kindness : It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life...we can never help another without helping ourselves.

212 degree Belief : Belief fuels enthusiasm, and enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts are spirits.

212 degree Focus : Having a simple,clearly defined goal can capture the imagination and inspire passion. It can cut through the fog like a beacon in the night.

212 degree Persevarance : Persevarance is not long race. It is many short races, one after another.

You are aware.................YOU now have a target for everything.................

Winner

A Winner is not only who never fails !! But never quits !!


Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, He would never be famous. He is
>>>Amitabh Bachchan.

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, One executive said, " We don't like! Their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called
>>>The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker," You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married". She went on and became
>>>Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, " You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck".He went on to become
>>>Elvis Presley.

A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly. He is
>>>Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. President of India.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, " That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"


When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, " I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process".

In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became
>>>Xerox Corporation.

A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with aparalyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered.Eventually this little girl--
>>>Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy was
>>>Albert Einstein

At the age of seven, a young boy and his family were forced out of their home, and the boy was
forced to go to work. When the boy was nine, his mother passed away. He had a job as a store
clerk, but lost it when he was twenty. The young man wanted to go to law school, but had no
education. He went into debt when he was twenty-three, to become a partner in a small store.
It was only three years later that his business partner died, and left him with a debt that took years
for him to repay. He dated a girl for four years and, at the age of twenty-eight, decided to ask her to
marry him. She turned him down. Thirty-seven years into his life, he was elected to Congress...
on his THIRD try. He then failed to be re-elected. This man's son died when he was only four years
old. At age forty-five, he ran for the Senate...and failed to be elected. He persisted at politics and
ran for the vice-presidency at age forty-seven, and again lost. Finally, at the age of fifty-one, this
man was elected President of the United States. His name was
>>>Abraham Lincoln.

Chanakya's Quotes - Worth Learning

Chanakya's Quotes - Worth Learning

• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first.
• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
• The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.