I just finished up the 75th anniversary issue of Fortune ( Sept 26, 2005). Its a great issue, and there are lot of things inside to share. Of course, as a businessman, and an avid writer, I particularly agree that ” Modern business is the greatest journalistic assignment in history.”

Here’s some more gems. ” Over the long run, the stock will behave itself. ” — Warren Buffet

” We are not a family business, we are a family in business.” - heirs of Estee Lauder as they try to prove that the third generation family will do an even better job on managing the business.

What Thomas Friedman has accomplished ( author of ” The world is Flat”), is also what I aspire for. This is what somebody said of him, ” He is an intellectual entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship in the business world is about a guy who has the best idea and acts very quickly to get his product to market. He’s the equivalent of that.”

” The word Abracadabra is the only 11 letter word that you can type out on the left hand side of the keyboard” — this is according to Warren Buffett as told to Fortune writer, Carol Loomis.

Ask if Fortune practices sex discrimination, Wyndham Robertson, a former Fortune assistant managing editor is purportedly have said, ” We’d hire an orangutan if it could write.”

Here are also some interesting facts.”

The US Treasury has assets of $237 billion and liabilities of $4.4 trillion, as of Sept 2004.

The next frontier on making the cell phone sound better is to have louder speakers, and the way to do it is to see how to use the surface of the display screen as speaker.

In a demonstration what can be done when focus and the absence of politics are present, Fred Ziari has been able to create a WiFi cloud in rural Oregon that is more than 700 square miles in coverage, which is currently the world’s largest hotspot.

Morrow County, for instance, has only 11,000 in population, and not even a single traffic light, but it has hotspots. More ….

Sylvester Stallone, 59, will reprise his role in the sixth “Rocky” film, titled “Rocky Balboa,” playing the Philadelphia boxer who is lured out of a long retirement to fight a championship bout while dealing with personal tragedy outside the ring.

“‘Rocky Balboa’ is about everybody who feels they want to participate in the race of life, rather than be a bystander. You’re never too old to climb a mountain, if that’s your desire,” Stallone said in a statement.

I know that I just wrote a piece that we should never be too old to give up, and I guess in some way many people feel the same.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it. - John D. Rockefeller

“Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to hvae them happen as quickly as you can so you can progress rapidly. ” - Gordon Moore, Chairman of Intel

“Overnight success takes 7 years”. - Dot com Lesson

“We don’t get paid for working with our feet - we get paid for working with our heads. Any man on the selling force today could make two dollars where he now makes one, if hewould but think along the right lines. ‘I didn’t think’ has cost the world millions of dollars.” - TJ Watson Sr., IBM founder, 1940

“We don’t buy growth, we grow what we buy“, Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric