"I'm a capitalist

in mind, a

socialist at

heart."

“To build a successful

business, you have to be

able to pick entrepreneurs

very early and get them

embedded into the

business. They need to go

out into the ecosystem,

demonstrate their

abilities, nurture the

business and build it up.”

"We give people major

responsibilities even if they

are only 60 per cent ready.

Our experience is that

people are pretty elastic

when you give them

responsibility, and they just

grow rapidly with the job."

“Everyone

experiences tough

times, it is a

measure of your

determination and

dedication how you

deal with them and

how you can come

through them.”

“To be a leader you

need two attributes:

the environment and

training. Equally

important is

recognition of the

fact that this is an

opportunity and one

has to grab it.”

"Unless you show

extraordinary

performance in your

journey to being a good

leader and prove your

managerial capability,

organizations don't

throw you up into

leadership positions."

“Your most unhappy

customers are your

greatest source of

learning.”

“Success is a lousy

teacher. It seduces

smart people into

thinking they can't

lose.”    

“Well, you know, I

was a human

being before I

became a

businessman.”

   

“If there is any one secret of

success, it lies in the ability to

get the other person's point of

view and see things from that

person's angle as well as from

your own.”

“A market is never saturated

with a good product, but it is

very quickly saturated with a

bad one.”

“Failure is the opportunity to

begin again, more intelligently.”

“You don't need

to have a 100-

person company

to develop that

idea.”

“Genius is 1%

inspiration and 99%

perspiration.

Accordingly a genius

is often merely a

talented person who

has done all of his or

her homework.”

                            

“I wanted to be an

editor or a journalist,

I wasn't really

interested in being an

entrepreneur, but I

soon found I had to

become an

entrepreneur in order

to keep my magazine

going.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The

more you sweat, the luckier you

get.”

“It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The

important thing is to have principles

when you're poor.”

“Some of the best business and

nonprofit CEOs I've worked with

over a sixty-five-year consulting

career were not stereotypical

leaders. They were all over the

map in terms of their personalities,

attitudes, values, strengths, and

weaknesses.”

“Executives owe it to the

organisation and to their fellow

workers not to tolerate

nonperforming individuals in

important jobs.”

“The future may be made

up of many factors but

where it truly lies is in

the hearts and minds of

men. Your dedication

should not be confined

for your own gain, but

unleashes your passion

for our beloved country

as well as for the

integrity and humanity of

mankind.”