Quotes about "Leadership & Influence"

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example. ”

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India. ”

Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries. ”

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person. ”

Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household. ”

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests. ”

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence. ”

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. ”

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ”

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ”