Two years ago, Stanford University, one of the most prominent universities in the United States, and acknowledged as the thought and education center of Silicon Valley, invited Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computers to be their commencement speaker.  His speech, entitled, “ Stay Hungry, Stay foolish”, was a very big hit and it was talked about in various articles, and I received many copies of that through my email where many people thought it was inspiring.  That speech, delivered on June 12, can be found on Stanford website

This month,  June 7, 2007, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, was invited to be the commencement speaker for Harvard University.  Bill Gates,  who famously dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, and the last 10 years have been the world’s richest man, as well as the world’s most generous philanthropist, having donated over 30 billion dollars of his wealth to philanthropic causes.

In his speech, Gates lauded the new ideas in economics and politics

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I was just going over the book, ” Why we want you to be Rich”, by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki.  One of the few gems of the book is the acronym focus, which is:

F = Follow
O = One
C = Course
U = Until
S = Successful

It is another adage that being successful should follow the strategy of , ” Keep all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket closely”.

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