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MBA Admission Process includes Group Discussion (GD), Extempore, Interview and other Group Exercise. During this process, particularly during MBA GD Round, a topic is given to students to discuss. Read this article to understand one such topic i.e. Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star, and how you can discuss this.

 

“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” W. Clement Stone
This quote is attributed to William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 – September 3, 2002), who was an American businessman, philanthropist and a self-help book author. Stone emphasized using a "positive mental attitude" to succeed. Stone adopted the motto of his mentor, Napoleon Hill, "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve (with PMA)." In 1960, Stone teamed up with Napoleon Hill to author Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.  

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Aim for the Moon, if you miss you may hit a Star Meaning
So that is the meaning of the phrase - Aim for the moon, if you miss, you may hit a star. This is a motivational quote that encourages people to set their sights high and take risks in pursuit of their goals. The idea behind the quote is that even if you fall short of your ultimate objective, you will likely still achieve something significant and worthwhile during the pursuit of a big ambitious goal.

 

The quote can be interpreted in different ways, but generally, it emphasizes the importance of aiming high and not being afraid to fail. It suggests that setting ambitious goals can inspire you to work harder and push yourself further than you might otherwise.

 

However, it's important to note that achieving success requires more than just setting lofty goals. It also requires hard work, perseverance, and a willingness to learn from your mistakes. So, while it's good to aim high, it's also important to have a realistic plan in place and to be prepared to put in the effort to achieve your objectives. 

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Aim for the Moon, if you miss you may hit a Star – Motivational Story
There are several motivational stories that prove this quote.

 

Dhiru Bhai Ambani, Reliance Founder and creator of Equity Cult
As is well known, Reliance is India’s largest private sector company. Reliance is the first Indian company to feature in the Forbes 500 list. Dhirubhai Ambani was the most enterprising Indian entrepreneur. His life journey is reminiscent of the rags to riches story. He is remembered as the one who rewrote Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. Dhirubhai Ambani was born on December 28, 1932, at Chorwad, Gujarat, into a Modh family. His father was a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by selling “bhajias” to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends. After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as a clerk in an oil company. He returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile trading company. In 1992, Reliance became the first Indian company to raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in international markets limited only by India’s sovereign rating. Reliance also became the first Indian company to feature in the Forbes 500 list. Dhirubhai Ambani died on July 6, 2002, at Mumbai.

 

Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho Corp.
He co-founded AdventNet in 1996 and has been CEO since 2000. AdventNet has transformed itself from a modest beginning as a software company serving network equipment vendors to be an innovative online application provider. Sridhar Vembu’s Zoho competes successfully around the world with some core products of Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce.com. Vembu shuns outside capital, but if Zoho were to be valued, it might be well over $1 billion. He grew up in a very modest middle-class family in Chennai. His father was a stenographer in the High Court. Neither his father nor his mother went to college. He went to a Tamil-medium, government-aided school till Std 10, and then he did 11th and 12th in an English-medium government school. He did well at school and he obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. 

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Karsanbhai Patel – Beating MNCs in their own game
The ‘Nirma’ success story of how an Indian Entrepreneur aimed big and took on the big MNCs and rewrote the rules of business. It was in 1969 that Dr. Karsanbhai Patel started Nirma and went on to create a whole new segment in the Indian domestic detergent market. During that time the domestic detergent market only had the premium segment and there were very few companies, mainly the MNCs, which were into this business. Karsanbhai Patel used to make detergent powder in the backyard of his house in Ahmedabad and then carry out door to door selling of his hand made product. He gave a money-back guarantee with every pack that was sold. Karsanbhai Patel managed to offer his detergent powder for Rs. 3 per kg when the cheapest detergent at that time was 4 times this price and so he was able to successfully target the middle and lower-middle-income segment. Rest was history! The company that was started in 1969 with just one, today employs around 14 thousand people and has a turnover of more than $ 500 million. In 2004 Nirma’s annual sales were as high as 800000 tonnes.

 

Not just individuals, many Indian organizations like ISRO too have proved that Aim for the Moon, if you miss, you may hit a Star.

 

ISRO – Aiming for Moon, and getting there!
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It is one of the six government space agencies in the world which possess full launch capabilities, can deploy cryogenic engines, launch extraterrestrial missions and operate large fleets of artificial satellites.

 

ISRO has the world's largest constellation of remote-sensing satellites and operates the GAGAN and NAVIC satellite navigation systems. It has sent two missions to the Moon and one to Mars. Goals in near future include expanding satellites fleet, landing a rover on Moon, sending humans into space, development of a semi-cryogenic engine, sending more uncrewed missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus and Sun and deployment of more space telescopes in orbit to observe cosmic phenomena and outerspace beyond the Solar System. Long-term plans include development of reusable launchers, heavy and super heavy launch vehicles, deploying a space station, sending exploration missions to external planets like Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and asteroids and crewed missions to moons and planets.

 

So, MBA students and aspirants, you must aim for the moon, because even if you miss it, you will hit a star. Even if you fall short of your ultimate objective of scoring CAT 100 %, you will still achieve high percentile. So, dream big and stay motivated…! 

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