Berkshire hathaways

These are the people I first turn to when I need a different perspective, a shade of light when I’m stuck with decisions, or to reach out to a group of people I don’t believe I could do all by myself. These people are my mentors. Just like the character ‘Mentor‘, the friend of Odysseus and tutor of Telemachus, in Homer’s famous Greek poetry ‘Odyssey‘, we all need a mentor who has walked our path and hopefully make it easier for us; and by the way, that’s the poem from where the term was derived! The history is also filled with famous Mentor-protégé duels! A few of them being Benjamin Graham, a famous economist and professional investor, to Warren Buffet, who later bought Benjamin Graham’s company Geico under his parent company – Berkshire Hathaway! Even the world’s richest man Bill Gates had a mentor – Dr. Ed Roberts, who was the creator of the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Here are another few famous … [Read more...] about 7 Reasons You Need To Have A Mentor For A Successful Career

In his latest memoir, “How about never, is never good for you?“, Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker magazine’s cartoon editor since 1997 and the co-founder of its cartoon bank shares how he reverse-engineered his side project in cartoons into a trajectory to the top. Self-education and tenacity leads to seeing rejection, not as a deterrent, but as a springboard for entrepreneurship. It is in rejection, that we find time and time again, the success stories of these entrepreneurs. Now even research undertaken by Cornell and John Hopkins university have shown that people who are able to shrug off rejection and blazing their own individual trails experience heightened levels of creativity, commercial success and problem solving. We now take air travelling for granted but nonetheless of our complacency for human flights, they were a thing of mystery and fascination in the earlier days. The business of modern flights were also a task of electrifying human spirit from … [Read more...] about 51 Inspiring Entrepreneur quotes Every Startup Guy Should Hear Right now

An entrepreneur, a genius investor, a billionaire, a philanthropist. Known as “The Man” widely for his ethical and sustainable living has definitely caught the world’s attention. A man who began investing since the age of 11 and a philanthropist who has vowed to give away his entire fortune of $53.5 Billion to charity is a household name throughout the world. Warren Buffett is the fourth richest man in the world and second richest man in the United States, only behind Bill Gates. tBy the age of 13, Warren Buffett was running his own business as a paper-boy and selling his own horse racing tip sheet. That same year, he filed his first tax return, claiming his bike as a $35 tax deduction. There was something extraordinary to Buffett since a very young age, given his knack for mathematics and financial matters. Buffett is the Chairman and CEO of Berkashire Hathaway, a conglomerate multinational corporation with a whooping $162 Billion in revenues, as of 2012. … [Read more...] about 15 Eye Opening Quotes By Business Magnate Warren Buffett

Quigley Down Under: Sometimes you have a movie that you only half-remember from when you were younger and you don’t really know if it was actually any good? This one was, though, a Western set in the Australian outback that manages to effectively deal with the inherent issues with the Western genre by moving the setting and changing the heart of the narrative in some smart ways. Runaway: By contrast, this one does not hold up, at all. I liked it when I was younger but the performances are stiff, the camerawork weak, and the interesting premise that it starts out with of a world wherein robots are common but not necessarily humanoid is sort of dropped and replaced with something way more bland quickly. Oh, well. Colossal: Actually I could have written a whole intro just about this movie because it’s amazing and I think basically no one saw it; I was told it existed and found it was on Hulu, and dear lord what an amazing film. If you’ve never seen it, it’ll appeal … [Read more...] about WRUP: Recent movies that I have watched edition