If you want to stay ahead of the rat race and believe in your abilities like never before, this compilation of interesting and inspiring quotes will not let you down.

I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling. – Anita Roddick

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. – Tryon Edwards

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. – Henry Ford

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. – Epictetus

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making. – B.C. Forbes

The cynic says, “One man can’t do anything”. I say, “Only one man can do anything.” – John W. Gardner

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. – Ingvar Kamprad

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The lighter, slimmer, cheaper new version of Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, Nook, would be making an appearance before customers as a simple eBook reader.

Price tag of the latest Nook – $139 – is a sign that the book seller is striving to compete with Amazon and Borders Group Inc. on e-reader prices.

From news.yahoo.com:

The focus on simplicity means the new Nook’s battery can last 2 months, CEO William Lynch said at an event in New York to announce the device. Lynch told the crowd of bloggers, news media and analysts the latest Nook was inspired by feedback from customers — specifically a letter asking why no e-readers were suitable for a grandma.

“The Kindle 3 has 38 buttons. That’s 37 more than the all-new Nook,” said Lynch, taking a jab at Amazon.com’s e-reader, the market’s top seller.

The new Nook, to be available June 10, is Wi-Fi only, has a 6-inch touch screen and can hold up to 1,000 digital books. It features the latest E Ink technology, which significantly minimizes flashing that can occur as a user pages through an e-book. Pages seem to melt into each other on the new Nook.

The latest Nook allows readers to look up words, highlight passages, search, and adjust font size.

Tags: Amazon, digital books, eBook reader, Nook

McDonald’s, the leading international food chain, has decided to open more stores in China.

This means that fans of McDonald’s could now enjoy burgers, fries, and shakes from their favorite international food chain in no time.

From news.yahoo.com:

McDonald’s aims to open at least 700 new stores in the country by 2013. At present, there are 1,300 Big Mac outlets in China, marking its largest expansion strategy ever deployed there. The newly announced goal sharply accelerates its December plan to open just 200 locations. So why the sudden move?

Mickey D’s is no stranger to the Middle Kingdom. In fact, McDonald’s has been in China for about two decades and, therefore, understands the market better than many of its rivals who may be just jumping in.

McDonald’s bet on China is clearly a play on the country’s growing attractiveness as an investment destination and as an opportunity to capitalize on the “Westernization” of consumers. To boost sales and improve profitability, companies have raised stakes in emerging markets where availability of cheap labor and raw materials often help these companies improve margins.

The second reason for this expansion can be the pressure McDonald’s is facing from its competitors. The fast-food market is heating up, and this is the time to expand. McDonald’s is looking at Asia for growth as it prepares to take on key rival Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM – News) in its pursuit for growth in China.

McDonald’s has the advantage of a two-decade-old presence and success in its Chinese expansion would be witnessed by an immediate impact on sales and bottom line.

Tags: debt ceiling, expansion strategy, financial crisis, food chain, in emerging markets, investment destination, McDonald's, recession

The AIM instant messenger of AOL Inc rolled out the first version of a free video chat service on Thursday that does not require users to download any software or log in.

The move is seen by many as an attempt by AOL to become more competitive in the fast-growing field of video chat.

From news.yahoo.com:

Called AV, the service was created as a way to have quick, easy video chats, Jason Shellen, a leader of the AIM team, said. Though there are plenty of other voice and video chat offerings available for computers and smartphones, AV is unlike many with its decision to eschew both logins and software downloads.

In order to start a chat, a user gets a unique link from AV and sends it to friends. Once a friend with a webcam clicks on the link, a chat window will pop up on the screen and show live video of the user who started the chat session and any other participants. Up to four people can be involved in a chat at once, Shellen said.

The service has several features, such as the ability to type messages to individual users while video chatting — to send a link to a webpage, for example. The originator of the chat session also has the ability to remove others from that chat. Other features will arrive in the next few weeks, Shellen said, including one called “Group Shot” that allows you to take a photo of everyone participating in the chat at once.

AV makes use of Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash software and will work on a personal computer and many Flash-running smartphones.

Tags: AIM instant messenger, AOL inc, Flash software, software downloads, video chat

If you have been looking for success quotations, these motivating quotes will surely be of an interest to you.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Kahlil Gibran

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. – Jesse Jackson

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. - Erich Fromm

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone – many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. – Richard Nelson Bolles

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If you want to access success at the workplace or in a business environment, these inspiring business quotations will help understand how motivation can help feel the difference.

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. – Sophia Lyon Fahs

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  – Shakti Gawain

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?  – Fanny Brice

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.  – Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.  – Samuel Johnson

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.  – Walter Kaufmann

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.  – Irene C. Kassorla

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted that the Chinese economy will surpass that of the US by 2016.

Gross domestic product (GDP) of China will rise from $11.2 trillion in 2011 to $19 trillion in 2016, while the American economy will increase from $15.2 trillion to $18.8 trillion, as per IMF forecast.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

According to the IMF’s forecast, based on ‘purchasing power parities’, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will rise from $11.2 trillion in 2011 to $19 trillion in 2016, while the American economy will increase from $15.2 trillion to $18.8 trillion.

China’s share of the global economy will ascend from 14 percent to 18 percent, while the US’ share will descend to 17.7 percent, China Daily reported.

The Economist had predicted in December 2010 that China would overtake the US in terms of nominal GDP in 2019.

The IMF forecast is based on ‘purchasing power parities.’

Tags: Chinese economy, GDP, Gross domestic product, IMF, International Monetary Fund

If you are not using email marketing software to promote your business, it is high time you start it today. The YouTube video helps you reap and optimize benefits of email marketing services. This video also highlights names of some of the best email marketing campaigns today.

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