Appearances can be misleading. How does our inner Ego sometimes misjudge a person.

 A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun
 suit, walked in timidly, without an appointment into the Harvard
 University President's outer office. The secretary could tell in a
 moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard
 and probably didn't even deserve to be in Harvard.

"We want to see the President "the man said softly.
 "He'll be busy all day "the secretary snapped.
 "We'll wait" the lady replied.

For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would go away.They didn't and the secretary grew frustrated. She finally decided to disturb the president.
 

"Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they'll leave" she said to
 him. The President, stern faced and with dignity, strutted towards the
 couple.

The lady told him "We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He
 loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was
 accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial
 to him, somewhere on campus."

The president wasn't touched....He was shocked. "Madam "he said,
 gruffly, " we can't put up a statue for every person who attended
 Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."

"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly"We don't want to erect a statue.
 We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard."

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and
 homespun suit, and then exclaimed, "A building ! Do you have any
 earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half
 million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.."

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he
 could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said
 quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a university ? Why don't we
 just start our own?"
 Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and
 bewilderment. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away,
 travelling to Palo Alto, California where they established the
 University that bears their name..Stanford University, a memorial to a
 son that Harvard no longer cared about.

Most of the time we judge people by their outer appearance, which can
 be misleading. And in this impression, we tend to treat people badly
 by thinking they can do nothing for us. Thus we tend to lose our
 potential good friends, employees or customers.

 Remember
 In our Life, we seldom get people with whom we want to share & grow
 our thought process.But because of our inner EGO we miss them forever.

 It is you who have to decide with whom you are getting associated in
 day to day life.

Small people talk about others,
Average people talk about things,
Great people talk about ideas.