A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband dressed in a home made suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office.
The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods individuals had no business at Harvard and probably did not even deserve to be in Harvard.
"We want to see the President" the man said softly.
"He will be busy all day" the lady secretary snapped. "We will wait" the lady replied.
For hours the secretary ignored them hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.
They did not and the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president.
"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they will leave" she said to him. The president. stern faced and with dignity strutted towards the couple.
The lady told him "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago he was accidentally killed. My husband & I would like to erect a memorial for him, somewhere on the campus".
The president was not touched, in fact he was shocked. "Madam" he said gruffly "We cannot put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery".
"Oh No..No.." the lady explained quickly.
"We do not want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to your Harvard in his fond memory".
The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the lady's dress and man's suit and then exclaimed: "A Building?"
Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard. For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now.
The lady turned to her husband and said quietly "Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.
Mr. & Mrs. Leland & Jane Stanford got up and walked away,
travelling to Paolo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name: Stanford University - a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance which can be misleading.
And in the impression, we tend to treat people badly by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose out potential good friends, employees or customers.
Though, it may not be convenient for you, do your best to always be supportive.
Especially to your friends even if you think they can't offer you anything.
Arrogance is a killer of friendship .... a soft word turns away wrath! Humility is a virtue, so, please continue with it.
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83 Noble prize winners from this University !!!
It’s a false story.
So sorry for posting without cross checking.
Thanks @devban76 for sharing the article.
People who did nothing in life except asking question from others, putting fingers on others that too on social media comes and lecture me on meaning of helping people, Teaching people for free.
THIS FREE WORD IS ACTUALLY VERY DANGEROUS.
LEMME TELL U HOW.
Whenever few people see someone start charging for some services they start attacking them and start giving lecture on free services and socialism.
Do you people really have audacity to ask anything for free?
What? Do u have any entitlement to get things for free?
Do you know whats the biggest problem of this type of mentality is?
What you are basically saying is - you dont beleive in making sacrifice and you don't beleive in earning things.
You beleive things should be handed to you for free for some strange reason, maybe just because u
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Kaha PR kaha mai.
Mujhe pnl dikhane ki jarurat hi kyo jab chillar chahiye hi nhi 😛.
Ek group hai - wo bhi timepass hai mera, jisko jab refund chahiye le ke niklo.
On pnl - bhut baar dikha diya hai- login karke bhi, ab chutiyapa lagta mere ko - if i m earning i will prove only
If i have something to take from u or lure u.
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Sabke cap 50 lakh se upar hai.
Ek ka to 2.5cr base cap tha
260 log group me hai 6 months se, pehle bolta hoo fir thokta hoo.
Na scalp karta hoo na option sell.
10-15cr ka profit market me peanut hai ( aadmi apne aukad ke hisab se sochta hai - tere liye saath pusht lhayegi utne me)
Noida me office hai - kabhi samne muh pe fraud bol lo
Around 2011, the deodrant market in India was ruled by big players like HULs AXE, Park Avenue and Nivea.
But in just 2 years, an unknown new brand Fogg entered & disrupted the market becoming the number 1 player.
Alll this with a simple consumer insight
A thread on Fogg 🧵
1986 - Darshan Patel without any formal education in marketing started running his family business, Paras Pharmaceuticals.
He created some great consumer brands like Moov, Ring Guard, Set Wet,
Dermi Cool and Dcold all of which became household names in India
2010 - Reckitt Benkiser Group bought over Paras Pharma for 850 million $ from Mr. Patel.
Armed with this new capital, Mr Patel setup Vini Cosmetics and started searching for the next big idea
Around that time,