Who's Counting?
Napoleon was involved in conversation with a colonel of a Hungarian battalion who had been taken prisoner in Italy. The colonel mentioned he had fought in the army of Maria Theresa. "You must have a few years under your belt!" exclaimed Napoleon. "I'm sure I've lived sixty or seventy years," replied the colonel. "You mean to say," Napoleon continued, "you have not kept track of the years you have lived?"
The colonel promptly replied, "Sir, I always count my money, my shirts, and my horses - but as for my years, I know nobody who wants to steal them, and I shall surely never lose them."
Time To Think
Henry Ford hired an efficiency expert to go through his plant. He said, "Find the nonproductive people. Tell me who they are, and I will fire them!"The expert made the rounds with his clipboard and returned to Henry Ford's office with his report. "I've found a problem with one of your administrators," he said. "Every time I walked by, he was sitting with his feet propped up on the desk.
The man never does a thing. I definitely think you should consider getting rid of him!" When Henry Ford learned the name of the man the expert was referring to, Ford shook his head and said, "I can't fire him. I pay that man to do nothing but think - and that's what he's doing."
INSPIRING ANECDOTES
'BOOK'
The english word 'book' come from the Danish word for book which is 'bog', which meansbirch tree, and early people of Demark wrote on birch tree. the latin word for book is 'liber' , and it refers to thin layer found between the bark and wood, on which the Romans wrote on . therefore, as books are made from trees they got the name ' book ' !
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STAR FACT !
1. You can spell out all the numbers from 1 to 99 without using the letter A.
2. More words in English begin with an S than with any other letter.
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