Thursday, August 21, 2008

Count Basie quotes

“If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.”

“I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."”

“All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that’s what I’ve been doing all my life.”

“It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.”

Business Quotes by Google founder Sergey Brin

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
Sergey Brin

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
Sergey Brin

Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin Quotes

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world
Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin Biography

Sergey Brin is the cofounder of the Google search engine. He and fellow Stanford University student Larry Page worked together on a project while doing a Ph.D. in Computer Science. The Pair left their studies to focus on developing the Google search engine. Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page went on to become two of the wealthiest young entrepreneurs in America with the success of their university project, Google.

Sergey Mihailovich Brin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. The Brin family moved from Russia to the United States of American in 1979 when Sergey was 5 years of age. His father gained work as a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland and his mother went on to work at NASA.

Brin grew up fascinated by computers and had one from a very early age, when home computers were not common in households (Commodore 64 days). He went on to receive a bachelor of science degree at the University of Maryland, with honors in mathematics and computer science in 1993. Brin then went on to start his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Stanford University.

While studying for his Ph.D he met Lawrence Page and went on to work with on a project to organize the Internet and improve the way people search for information. They first nicknamed the project "BackRub" as it relied heavily on the number and relevancy of links pointing to a website (later called PageRank).

"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page." Sergey Brin Quote

Brin and Page left their studies at Stanford University and started Google Inc. in 1998. The popularity of the search engine increased dramatically, forcing the company to constantly expand its computing power, improve its technology, and move to bigger premises (now situated at the "Googleplex" in Mountain View, California). The company became a publicly traded company in 2004 (traded on the NASDAQ as GOOG) with individual shares being valued at $85 each and quickly rose to $100+ in the first day of trading. Google has continued to grow through acquiring and creating new Internet services and products online. The stock price also grew rapidly to more than $420 per share at the end of November in 2005.

"Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We believe that the most effective, and ultimately the most profitable, way to accomplish our mission is to put the needs of our users first. We have found that offering a high-quality user experience leads to increased traffic and strong word-of-mouth promotion." SEC Filing of Google

Sergey Brin and Larry Page shared 16th position on the Richest Americans list released by the Forbes business magazine in 2005, having an estimated $11 billion USD each.

Brin remains active in the company with the role of the president of Technology.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mohammed Ali quote on imagination…

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Mohammed Ali — US Boxer and former World Heavy

Weight Champion…

Inspirational quotes by Mahammad Ali

1>Hating people because of their color is wrong.
And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.
It's just plain wrong.

2>Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach
down to the bottom of his soul and
come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

3>To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them.
This is the only way that you will be truly rich."

4>I hated every minute of training, but I said,
''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''

5>He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.

6>What keeps me going is goals.

7>The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

8>The man who has no imagination has no wings."

9>It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.