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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?"
"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader."
"Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom."
"May Lord Ganesha bless you with abundant happiness, prosperity, and wisdom this Ganesh Chaturthi and throughout the year."
"It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated."
"I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India."
"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."
"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
"The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on."
"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong."
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."
"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
"The administration of a country, more than any other human activity, is carried on in the atmosphere of moral compromise."
"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."
"India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies."
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
"At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering."
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."
"Freedom is the ultimate value in life. Nothing is higher than that."
"Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model."
"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
"A book is not completed till it's read."
"One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity."
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
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