“Many hands, and hearts, and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements”
– Walt Disney
“In the end organizations will move on, brands will morph, market shares will remain cyclical and stock prices volatile. Owners and business partners will also gravitate to the new person holding the seat of power. What will endure for a professional will be his legacy as an inspirational manager”
– Amol Titus
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity while a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity”
– Winston Churchill
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great”
– Jim Collins
“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so, you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“What is malleable is always superior to that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation”
– Lao Tzu
“It’s the sign of a leader to step in when something’s not working, have the guts to reverse it and not let the mistake linger”
– Jeff Zucker
“In the early days, philanthropy was about creating development institutions such as hospitals, and initiatives of a nature which at the time were more about nation building than ours are today. Today, our philanthropic initiatives have greater focus, for example, on creation of awareness of things like discrimination against the girl child, on microfinance, to get people away from money lenders, on water harvesting and conservation and in moving more to small community initiatives”
– Ratan Tata
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius”
– Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is hard to overstate the importance of reputation in a market economy. To be sure, a market economy requires a structure of formal rules � a law of contracts, bankruptcy statutes, a code of shareholder rights � to name a few. But rules cannot substitute for character. In virtually all transactions, whether with customers or with colleagues, we rely on the word of those with whom we do business”
– Alan Greenspan
“I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, it’s about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world”
– Anita Roddick
“If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing”
– W Edwards Deming