Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Success to my Dad meant to live a pure honest and respectable life and work hard to reach the full potential. He told me “Success is not selfish and greed but passion to help others succeed”. As I have grown, disparity among the successful and the poor has grown. Success now is measured by greed wealth and not by wisdom. It has become a business of the greedy. The rich are selfish and greedy, not willing to help the poor achieve…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…