“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.” WorldTwoFactsHalfAirFeetAchieveAmountEssenceTrainAverageSpeedShipsLiftsPlanesExpensiveEnginesLoadCommodityTransportAeroplanesHigh SpeedCargo Author:J. R. D. Tata
“Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.” PeopleAchieveAimAverageCommitInnovativePush YourselfAim High Author:Anil Sinha
“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.” PeopleThinkingSeemsLevelsAchieveIgnoranceComfortHorrorNormalLowsAverageMediocreSinkingAbnormalProximityLow LevelAbnormality Book:the Human Mind Source: the Human Mind
“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.” WholeAchieveReturnAmountCostManagementRateInvestingAverageActiveManagersFundExpensesGrossPercentagesDisadvantagesTransactionsIndex FundsActive Management Author:Burton Malkiel
“In the European Union, a fleet average of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer will be permitted in 2020. This corresponds to fuel consumption of about four liters (per 100 kilometers; about 59 mpg). We have to continue reducing the fuel consumption of our vehicles and offer hybrid and electric vehicles, or else we will be unable to achieve these values.” ValuesFourAchieveOffersUnionsAverageFuelVehicleElectricConsumptionReducingEuropean UnionHybridCo2Electric Vehicles Author:Norbert Reithofer
“I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.” NeedsSaidHardAchieveProduceHard WorkIncreaseWorkersAverageProductionsIncomeAnnualsChile Author:Salvador Allende