IF........Rudyard Kipling

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Budget 2009 - highlights

http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2009-10/bh/bh1.pdf

How reliable B school rankings are

Sharing profit: Hyderabad B-school invites 'rejects' to re-apply : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Hyd-B-school-rejects-can-re-apply/articleshow/4690154.cms
It's the news!!! One of the top 20 schools in the world is struggling to get the applicants? Offering discounted rates?
FT should judge the schools on more realistic grounds.

Said a Blade of Grass by Khalil Gibran

Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf, "You make such a noisefalling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
Said the leaf indignant, "Low-born and low-dwelling! Songless,peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tellthe sound of singing."
Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth and slept. And whenspring came she waked again--and she was a blade of grass.
And when it was autumn and her winter sleep was upon her, andabove her through all the air the leaves were falling, she mutteredto herself, "O these autumn leaves! They make such noise! Theyscatter all my winter dreams."