My republic day speech at IPE on the eve of 56th Republic day in 2005

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Namaskar everybody!

           

            Today we all get together to celebrate India’s 56^th Republic day. First I would like to I salute the founding fathers of this great nation and I pay my homage to the memory of those who laid down their lives in the defense of the Republic and all those who have made this nation proud.

 

We all must be very proud of being the citizens of this great republic. The word ‘Republic’ is no ordinary word. It is a commitment to the effect that, in our State, supreme power is exercised not by some remote monarch but by the people.

 

Let us celebrate the exceptional status we enjoy, the status of being the world’s largest democracy. Given the chequered career of democracies elsewhere, we can be grateful to be citizens of this Republic.

 

We have one of the world’s largest reservoirs of technical personnel, but also the world’s largest number of illiterates; the world’s largest middle class, but also the largest number of people below the poverty line, and the largest number of children suffering from malnutrition. Our giant factories rise from out of squalor; our satellites shoot up from the midst of the hovels of the poor. India is a rich country inhabited by poor

 

The world watches us with a combination of admiration and concern: admiration at what we have achieved despite great odds, and concern over the fact that, even with great investments of money and energy we remain far from our goal. Indians do well, they say; India does not. We must examine the import of that observation and try to rectify the situation.

Yesterday In his address to the Nation on the eve of the 56th Republic Day, Dr Kalam called for launching missions in specific areas like agriculture and food processing, education and healthcare, information and communication technology, infrastructure development and self-reliance in critical technologies for transforming India as a developed nation by the year 2020.  
           

The President said a new situation was emerging in the national scene in the year 2005.

            India was now witnessing, all at one time, an ascending economic trajectory, continuously rising foreign exchange reserves, global recognition of technological competence, emergence of 540 million youth, both men and women, as a dynamic positive force for national development and umbilical connectivities of 20 million people of Indian origin in various parts of the planet.

            Pointing out that many developed countries had shown interest in investing in Indian engineers and scientists, including the setting up of new Research and Development centres, Dr Kalam said this was the time when the nation should launch series of missions in the five specific areas.

Giving a special thrust on education and employment, Dr Kalam asked the people to rededicate themselves on the occasion of the Republic Day to build India as a nation which provided employment to all, leading to economic prosperity.

Here we have important role to play, the role which we all aim at i.e., to become entrepreneurs.

By becoming entrepreneurs we can provide employment for many. What our country needs are leaders not just managers

 

We must aim to be leaders rather than just managers for management efficiency is in climbing the ladder of success; Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall

 

Request:

Close your eyes for 1 minute and make a prayer to GOD to provide strength to our nation so that it can rise to glory and also to provide us with the needed strength to serve our nation in the rightful manner.

 

I once again extend my greetings to everybody. Remember one thing where ever you go

 

sāre jahāñ se achchā hindostāñ hamārā

ham bulbuleñ haiñ us kī vuh gulsitāñ hamārā

  Jai Hind.

Reasons many people don't become entrepreneurs

This is a mail i received from one of my friends Sreekanth!

Read this powerful article on why people fear failure & mistakes by Robert Kiyosaki.

One of the reasons so many people don't become entrepreneurs is because they're afraid of failing. They're afraid of making mistakes. They're afraid of losing money. But if people can't overcome these psychological fears, they'd be better off keeping their day jobs.

In the early 1980s, when my first major business failed, I thought I was the stupidest person in the world. Being flat broke and getting calls from creditors made me wish I had never wanted to be an entrepreneur. I even wanted my old job back.

But instead of condemning me for failing, my rich dad gave me one of life's most important lessons: *"You're fortunate to have failed. You now have the opportunity to learn how to turn bad luck into good luck. If you can do that, you'll have a life of more and more good luck."

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Here are three key points for turning bad luck into good luck:

*Don't blame.* When my rich dad asked me what went wrong, the first thing I did was blame my partners and the economy. He immediately said,* "Never blame anyone for your failures.""But it was their fault,"* I replied.Shaking his head, my rich dad said,* "If you blame someone else, you'll never learn from your mistake. If you blame, you give your power away." *Remember, there are no victims–only volunteers. And you volunteered to become an entrepreneur.

*Meet new partners.* My rich dad said*, "In every bad deal, I have always met good people. Some became new partners."* Still hating two of my partners, it was hard for me to understand this statement, yet I took my rich dad's advice and began sifting through the wreckage.Today, one of my best friends came from that business fiasco. In the ruins of other business failures, I met my current partner in real estate and another partner in my franchise business. If not for the failures, I wouldn't have met those fellow entrepreneurs and gone on to make millions of dollars with them.

*Study your mistakes.** "Mistakes are priceless,"* my rich dad told me. *"Study them, learn and profit from them." *Again, this lesson was hard to hear.

Being angry and broke, I wanted to run from my mistakes. But rather than run from my failure, I went back to my factory, studied my mistakes and resurrected the business.

This is how I turn bad luck into good luck. Remember, making mistakes and becoming smarter is the job of an entrepreneur; not making mistakes is the job of an employee.

Lets Keep Learning

Wish you a very happy new year!

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one thing i am sure is that year 2009 will bring in a lot of changes implies there is an increased need for us to learn more...

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lets keep learning