babY-pose: Intention is better than Ambition

July 3, 2013

Intention is better than Ambition

-berniat lebih baik dari berimpian-

Since I have read most that we have now need to write down our dreams (impian) in the motivators' way. I agree with that, as from before til now I believe in

1) wish (mohon)
2) want and admit that I want (mahu dan mengaku mahu),
3) pray that be granted and act like already achieved (mendoakan supaya makbul dan membawa diri seperti layak memiliki).

As before I always say "admire fire up desire" berminat membangkit kehendak" it is almost like it is but more add up with rules this time.

so I admire Famous Amos but love most Harrods.

This is what I want to get and only Allah knows behind it and how. Got me and set yours too :)

Source from Wikipedia

Harrods

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Harrods

Type	Private company
Industry	Retail
Genre	Department Store
Founded	1834
Founder(s)	Charles Henry Harrod
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Hussain Al Abdulla, Ahmad Al Sayed, Kamel Maamria, Michael Ward
Products	Quality & luxury goods
Revenue	£651 million (2012)
Net income	£125 million (2012)
Owner(s)	Qatar Investment Authority
Employees	6,000
Website	www.harrods.com

Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The Harrods brand also applies to other enterprises undertaken by the Harrods group of companies including Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods, and to Harrods Buenos Aires, sold by Harrods in 1922 and closed as of 2011, with plans announced to reopen in 2013.^[1]
The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m²) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m²) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe. The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m²) of selling space.,^[2] while the third largest, Allders of Croydon had 500,000 square feet (46,000 m²) of retail space. By comparison Europe's second-largest department store the KaDeWe in Berlin has a retail space of 650,000 square feet (60,000 m²).
The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique—All Things for All People, Everywhere. Several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the Food Hall, are world famous.

History

Fashion plate of 1909 shows wealthy Londoners walking in front of Harrods

Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25. The business was located south of the River Thames in Southwark. The premises were located at 228 Borough High Street. He ran this business, variously listed as a draper, mercer and a haberdasher, certainly until 1831.^[3]^[4]^[5] During 1825 the business was listed as 'Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail',^[6] but this partnership was dissolved at the end of that year.^[7] His first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod & Co.Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E.C.1., in 1832.^[8] In 1834 in London's East End, he established a wholesale grocery in Stepney, at 4, Cable Street, with a special interest in tea. In 1849, to escape the vice of the inner city and to capitalise on trade to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in nearby Hyde Park, Harrod took over a small shop in the district of Brompton, on the site of the current store. Beginning in a single room employing two assistants and a messenger boy, Harrod's son Charles Digby Harrod built the business into a thriving retail operation selling medicines, perfumes, stationery, fruit and vegetables. Harrods rapidly expanded, acquired the adjoining buildings, and employed one hundred people by 1880.
However, the store's booming fortunes were reversed in early December 1883, when it burnt to the ground. Remarkably, in view of this calamity, Charles Harrod fulfilled all of his commitments to his customers to make Christmas deliveries that year—and made a record profit in the process. In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A. A. Milne, and many members of the British Royal Family.
On Wednesday, 16 November 1898, Harrods debuted England's first "moving staircase" (escalator) in their Brompton Road stores; the device was actually a woven leather conveyor belt-like unit with a mahogany and "silver plate-glass" balustrade.^[9] Nervous customers were offered brandy at the top to revive them after their 'ordeal'. The department store was purchased by the Fayed brothers in 1985.^[10]