Motivating Story of Coke and Pepsi

Motivating Story of Coke and Pepsi Business in USA

This is a highly Motivating Story about the Pepsi and Coke war in USA in the 1980.

In the 1980’s the two big soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi were in business in USA. Both companies had good management.

Every meeting of the Pepsi and Coke teams in their conference hall used to be towards taking over the market share of each other. Very soon they realized that they were not making any headway in boosting their sales or profit.

But Coke team realised their mistake and changed their strategy. So Coke changed their agenda now to get their own sales and profit to increase by 0.1 % every month. In fact, their endeavor now was now to compete against their own capabilities.

The Coke company was initially succeeding in achieving their goal of 0.1 % increase in sales monthly. But after a few months the company found that even this small 0.1% increase in sales becoming difficult to cope with.

One day the CEO of Coke thought to change the strategy once again. He did a market survey to find out what is the total consumption of fluids of an average American.

The results were amazing. Each American drinks about 1.5 liters of fluids including water, tea, coffee, beer etc a day on an average and out that only 30 ml was soft drinks like Coke and Pepsi.

Now their conference was concentrating only on how to increase this 30 ml quota to at least 300 ml to start with. One of the executives suggested that they should make Coke available to the people when ever and where ever they felt thirsty or wanted to drink some thing.

To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Coke sales were up more than ten times from then on and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.

Moral of this Motivating Story of Coke and Pepsi

“Challenge and compete against your own capabilities, if you want to excel.”

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Motivating Moral Story of Gold Miner

Motivating Moral Story of a Gold Miner who gave up digging

This is a highly motivating and inspiring moral story about a gold miner who quit digging just two feet from striking gold.

Once there were was man who sold all his belongings and went prospecting for gold.

He discovered a vein of the shining ore, staked a claim, and proceeded to get down to the serious business of getting the gold ore out of the mine.

As he put his wealth in employing people to dig the gold ore out for him something strange happened and the vein of gold ore disappeared!

He had come to the end of the rainbow and the pot of gold was no longer there. The man continued to employ more people to dig deeper, but without success.

Finally, he gave up in disgust. He sold his equipment and claim rights for a meager amount to a businessman and took a train back home.

The businessman who bought the claim hired an engineer to examine the rock strata of the mine.

The engineer advised him to continue digging in the same spot where the previous man had left off. And one foot deeper, the businessman struck gold…!

If only the other man had not given up and dug one foot more, he could have been a millionaire.

Moral of this Motivating and Inspiring Story of Gold Miner

“Dig a foot more. Fight a bit more. Don’t you ever give up.”

Motivating Moral Story of Monkey Menace

Motivating Moral Story of Monkey Menace in a Village.

This is highly Motivating and Inspiring Moral Story of Monkey Menace in a Village, where the Villagers stopped cultivating land to sell Monkeys to a Businessman who fooled them.

Once a businessman was staying overnight in a village that had severe monkey menace. The businessman offered dollar 10 per monkey to the villagers if they could catch monkeys for him.

The entire villagers stopped working in their fields and became monkey catchers. They made good money for a few days.

The monkey population reduced and the villagers lost interest. The businessman hiked the rate to dollar 20 per monkey.

The villagers once again started doing the lucrative job with new vigour. But there were not many monkeys left to catch.

The businessman further raised the rate to dollar 50 a monkey, but told his assistant to do the business as he had to go away on a business trip.

The next day the assistant said to the villagers “Lets us have a deal. I will sell you as many monkeys you want at dollar 35 a monkey.

When the businessman returns, you can sell it to him for dollar 50, a clean dollar 15 profit without doing any work.

The villagers sold their belongings and fertile land to buy back more monkeys than they had sold till now, in the hope of a quick profit.

A couple of days later the assistant also vanished from the village. The villagers now have neither money nor land to cultivate and have more monkeys than they originally had to deal with.

The Moral of this Motivating and Inspirational Story of Monkey Menace in Village.

“Don’t try any monkey business and end up losing your pensionable job.”


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Motivating Story of Job Interview

Motivating Story of a Poor Boy's Job Interview

Motivating Story of a Poor Boy who went for a Job Interview

This is a very motivating moral story of a poor boy who went for a job interview as an office boy.

A poor boy went to a big company to appear for a job interview as an office boy. The boy did not get the job because he did not have an email ID. They said without an email id, In his pocket there was only Rs.50/- remaining.

The poor boy went and bought a Kilo of apples and started selling it on his long walk back home. He went to every house on the way selling the apples. He reached home with Rs.80/- in his pocket.

The poor boy continued to do this hard work daily for many years and his business grew. Over the years his business grew and he now owns a company that exports apples all over the world.

One day during an interview he was asked by the journalist what his email ID was. He replied, “I don’t have an email id”.

The interviewer said “What? Without an email id you have made a business empire. Just imagine what you would have been with an email id”. The man thought for a while and said, “An office boy”.

Moral of this Motivating Story of a Poor Boy's Job Interview

“No one has yet made any software that can replace hard work.”


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Motivating Moral Story - FisherMan

Motivating Moral Story - Fisher Man and a BusinessMan

Motivating Moral Story - FisherMan and a BusinessMan

This is a Motivating Moral Story of a FisherMan who lived in the village enjoying life.

A businessman went to a fishing village. A small boat with just one fisher man docked with a few large tuna. The man complimented the fisher man on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisher man said “only a little while.”

The businessman then asked why didn't he stay out longer and catch more fish. The fisherman said that he had enough to support his family's immediate needs. The businessman then asked the fisherman, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

The fisherman said to the businessman, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The businessman started advising the fisher man, "I am a Harvard MBA. You should spend more time fishing and buy a bigger boat with the proceeds and then have a fleet of fishing boats, selling your catch directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery."

The businessman continued, "You would need to move to a City, where you will run your expanding enterprise. After about 15-20 years when the time is right you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich”.

The fisherman asked the businessman “Then what?" The business man's answer was, "Then you would retire, move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

The fisherman said in reply to the businessman, "Sir, that is what I am doing already."

Moral of the Motivating Story - Fisher Man

"Learn to enjoy life now, doing what you would do after retirement"


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Motivating Moral Story - Carpenter

Motivating Moral Story - Carpenter

This is a very Motivating Moral Story of a Carpenter who did a bad construction of his own house without knowing it is being built for himself.


An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.

When the carpenter finished his work, the employer came to inspect the house. He handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house", he said, "my gift to you." The carpenter was shocked. If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.

Moral of the Motivating Story - Carpenter

“Every job you finish, reflects you. Give your best every time.”


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Motivating Moral Story - Father And Son

Motivating Moral Story - Father and Son

This Motivating Moral Story is about a Father and Son in which the boy tries to buy his own fathers time of one hour by paying him what the father earns an hour. A very touchy Moral Story that is very Motivating for parents..

Once there was boy. His father was a very busy man. One day he asked his father who came home late in the night as usual, “Dad, how much money do you make in one hour?” The father said, “It is none of your business. But for your knowledge I make 100.00 dollars every hour.”

The boy then asked, “Dad can you lend me 99 Dollars.” The father got wild and said, “If the only reason you wanted to know how much money I make is just so you can borrow some to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about it, why you're being so selfish. I work long, hard hours everyday and I don't have time for such childish games."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.” After sometime the father went to his son’s bedroom and gave 99 dollars to his son and asked why needed the money. The little boy took out one dollar kept under his pillow and replied, “because I can’t be lucky 99 more times to find dollars lying on the road. Here is your 100 dollars, dad. Can I buy an hour of your time?”

Moral of the Motivating Story Father and Son

“Find time for your children. They belong to you and the Nation.”

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