- Burning desire
- Skill
- Enough time
- Put in the effort
- Perseverance
- Rich parents / relatives
- Luck
Friday, March 23, 2012
Why are only top 0.1% rich?
Because others do not have
Monday, November 7, 2011
How to raise a kid to be a leader
Inculcate
- Desire to excel; Taste for finer things; Identify problems/ opportunities
- Confidence to achieve anything
- Vision to make plans to achieve
- Skill to execute the plans; focus and patience to follow through
- Problem solving / troubleshooting/ optimizing/ improvizing skill
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Favorite Quotes
- Sara Blakely's father: What did you fail at in this week?
- Siva Pandeti: It's daunting and that's why I want to do it!
- Steve Jobs: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
- Aim to be on the cover page of Forbes
- Let go of your fear of failure to achieve big
- Play to win not play to not lose
- Do unto others as you would have others do unto you
- What you sow is what you reap
- Measure twice cut once
- The best monarch has a firm vision for and is ruthless in pursuit of that vision
- Larry Page: the chance to make a difference is the greatest motivation anyone can have..... best people always want to work on the biggest challenges; one-sentence summary of how to change the world… work on something that is uncomfortably exciting!
Stephen Covey: 7 habits
- Begin with end in mind - what would you like your eulogy to look like?
- Be proactive
- Put first things first
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand then to be understood
- Synergize
- Sharpen the saw
Azim Premji - Dare to dream
Convocation speech at IIT Madras
- Dare to dream - big things are achieved only when you dream
- Never lose your zest and curiosity - subscribe to thought leaders
- Strive for excellence
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