Amazing Always

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
- Anonymous

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
- Donald Trump

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.
- Ayn Rand

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.
- Ernest Haskins

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
- Henry Miller

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
- Anonymous

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
- Horace

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
- Kahlil Gibran

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift

Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
- Thomas P. Murphy

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
- Bob Hope

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Plato

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
- Joseph Campbell

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around.
- Christina Stead

 That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know who his grandson will be.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend
is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just - that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

Mandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly.

Nelson Mandela personifies struggle. He is still leading the fight against apartheid with extraordinary vigour and resilience after spending nearly three decades of his life behind bars. He has sacrificed his private life and his youth for his people, and remains South Africa's best known and loved hero.

Mandela has held numerous positions in the ANC: ANCYL secretary (1948); ANCYL president (1950); ANC Transvaal president (1952); deputy national president (1952) and ANC president (1991).

He was born at Qunu, near Umtata on 18 July 1918.

His father, Henry Mgadla Mandela, was chief councillor to Thembuland's acting paramount chief David Dalindyebo. When his father died, Mandela became the chief's ward and was groomed for the chieftainship.

Mandela matriculated at Healdtown Methodist Boarding School and then started a BA degree at Fort Hare. As an SRC member he participated in a student strike and was expelled, along with the late Oliver Tambo, in 1940. He completed his degree by correspondence from Johannesburg, did articles of clerkship and enrolled for an LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand.

In 1944 he helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949.

Mandela was elected national volunteer-in-chief of the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He travelled the country organising resistance to discriminatory legislation.

He was given a suspended sentence for his part in the campaign. Shortly afterwards a banning order confined him to Johannesburg for six months. During this period he formulated the "M Plan", in terms of which ANC branches were broken down into underground cells.

By 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first black legal firm in the country, and Mandela was both Transvaal president of the ANC and deputy national president.

A petition by the Transvaal Law Society to strike Mandela off the roll of attorneys was refused by the Supreme Court.

In the 'fifties, after being forced through constant bannings to resign officially from the ANC, Mandela analysed the Bantustan policy as a political swindle. He predicted mass removals, political persecutions and police terror.

For the second half of the 'fifties, he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial. With Duma Nokwe, he conducted the defence.

When the ANC was banned after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, he was detained until 1961 when he went underground to lead a campaign for a new national convention.

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, was born the same year. Under his leadership it launched a campaign of sabotage against government and economic installations.

In 1962 Mandela left the country for military training in Algeria and to arrange training for other MK members.

On his return he was arrested for leaving the country illegally and for incitement to strike. He conducted his own defence. He was convicted and jailed for five years in November 1962. While serving his sentence, he was charged, in the Rivonia trial, with sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment.

A decade before being imprisoned, Mandela had spoken out against the introduction of Bantu Education, recommending that community activists "make every home, every shack or rickety structure a centre of learning".

Robben Island, where he was imprisoned, became a centre for learning, and Mandela was a central figure in the organised political education classes.

In prison Mandela never compromised his political principles and was always a source of strength for the other prisoners.

During the 'seventies he refused the offer of a remission of sentence if he recognised Transkei and settled there.

In the 'eighties he again rejected PW Botha's offer of freedom if he renounced violence.

It is significant that shortly after his release on Sunday 11 February 1990, Mandela and his delegation agreed to the suspension of armed struggle.

Mandela has honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities and is chancellor of the University of the North.

He was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994 - June 1999

Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999. He currently resides in his birth place - Qunu, Transkei.

FACTS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1564. Born at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, probably April 21-23, and baptized

April 26 1582. License issued for his marriage with Anne Hathaway of Shottery

1583. Daughter Susanna born

1585. Twins Hamnet and Judith born

1592. First alluded to in a book, by Robert Greene

1593. 'Venus and Adonis' published

1594. 'The Rape of Lucrece' published

1596. His son Hamnet dies

1596. His father is granted a coat of arms

1597. Purchases New Place in Stratford

1598. Is praised by Francis Meres, who mentions his poems and sonnets and names 12 of his plays

1603. He and his fellow players are honored by James I; appointed Grooms of the King's Chamber

1607. Daughter Susanna marries

1609. 'Sonnets' published

1616. Daughter Judith marries

1616. Dies April 23 and is buried April 25

Bill Gates is one of the best examples of business leaders changing their way to strive towards doing good. Earlier this year Bill Gates gave an interesting speech on tackling inequities at Harvard.

I like his down to business approach to reduce poverty:

"Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause—and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it? For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have?

The defining and ongoing innovations of this age—biotechnology, the computer, the Internet—give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease... You know more about the world’s inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope you’ve had a chance to think about how—in this age of accelerating technology—we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism—if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world.

Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives."

          What a final call for action: “From those to whom much is given, much is expected.”

According to an article from Gizmodo you may not be alone if you have ever had trouble getting a Visa. Even being a multi-billionaire apparently does not always help.

Bill Gates was recently visiting Africa, but needed a visa to travel to Nigeria. Getting a visa cannot be that much of a big deal if you are a multibillionaire, or so you would think.

The Nigerian government initially denied the Microsoft kingpin’s application on the premise that they required proof he would not reside in Nigeria indefinitely, causing a strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration.

Dear Nigeria, he is not just there to collect welfare.

The Vista launch did not go that badly.

Jackson's life Mystery flows

 Are people still interested in buying Michael Jackson records anyway? Seriously, I think at this point no one wants to be associated with him.  Anyway, Prince told him to do a few acoustic shows in Vegas to see if he still has it.

“Prince has been suggesting that Michael play a sequence of unplugged concerts in Las Vegas - just Michael and the microphone. No gimmicks, no costume changes, no smoke or mirrors, just his voice.”

I don’t know. I can’t look at Micheal Jackson without thinking….”weird”, “plastic surgery” and “child molester.”