I have maintained that in the 21st century, what you will become is more of a function of what you can do, and what you are willing to do, rather than of where you were born. Business prosperity is being distributed. The world is getting flat …

One of the things that validates this is the wide disperse of the current global Fortune 500 companies for 2006. If you look at these top 500 companies, you will find that they have main headquarters all over the world, in 229 cities in 32 countries.

In fact, the traditional places of capital and market ( London, Paris, and New York) has roughly only 5% each of the Fortune 500.

There are Fortune 500 companies in Sengnam, Bangkok, Taipei, Bella Vista, turin, Luxemberg, Oslo, Espoo, Bradford, Middlesex, Bilbao, Rio de Janero, Caracas, Dublin, Chiba, Kobe, and many other cities. In short, big business is everywhere because opportunities for big bucks are everywhere.

Vanuatu is the happiest country on Earth, according to New Economics Foundation on a survey of 178 countries. The United States was ranked 150th. When asked why, Marke Lowen of Vanuatu Online said, “People are generally happy here because they are very satisfied with very little. This is not a consumer-driven society. Life here is about community and family and goodwill to other people. It’s a place where you don’t worry too much.”

I just read this, and reflecting - do you win if you end up dying and getting buried in the most expensive coffin or with the fattest mortgage?

One of the other things I have been embroiled is that I have a couple of friends who endlessly are in a tangle - the reason - their competitors or associates have smite them, and they feel that they have to get back. Why be vindictive? We do need to protect our interests, but sometimes getting back for the sake of getting back is just not productive. I have always thought that the best way to get back at your enemies or competitors is to be more successful than them. If they are so small minded as you portray them to be, let them squirm and have sleepless nights at seeing you become a success!

Have you seen a cheque for more than a million dollars? How about 10 million? How about a piece of paper worth $11 billion?

Reports said that when Warren Buffet decided to donate his money to charity, he had to go to the safety deposit box in a bank in Omaha, and get out a stock certificate for 121, 737 shares of Bershire Hathaway A Stock. That 1979 stock certificate has been there for 27 years and was worth over $11 billion.

It was said he thought whether he wanted to Fedex that to Minneapolis, but later on, he decided to ask one of his people to personally bring that there to convert to 3.75 million of Bershire B Stock.

There is a 36 percent decrease in land used globally to cultivate opium and heroin from 1998 to presentand 89 percent of all opiates now come from afghanistan.
64.8 of all email trafic is spam. This is the same percentage as june last year. IT is also estimated that 10 percent of instant messaging is also now spam.