118 - Digging for gold

As a young boy, Andrew Carnegie came to America and started doing odd jobs. Later on, he became one of the largest steel manufacturers of the United States.

At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. One day, someone asked him how he dealt with people. Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is like digging for gold. When you go digging for an once of gold, you have to move tons of dirt to get one ounce of gold. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for dirt, you go looking for gold." There is something positive in every person and every situation. Sometimes we have to dig deep to look for the positive because it may not be apparent.

"Gunadosha samahare gunan gruhananthi sahdavah
Ksheeravari samahare hamsah ksheeramivaakhilam"

The good people pick up only good qualities from the aggregate of good and bad just as a swan picks up milk in its entirety from the mixture of milk and water.

source: Stories from Here and There, Ekalavya Education Foundation - By: Sunil Handa - http://www.eklavya.org/storyhere.html