Listen to that little voice of hope

Hope is that little voice you hear, which keeps you walking and tries to whisper, 'Maybe' at a time when the entire world has accepted defeat on behalf of you.

Century of learning

In this century, it won't be about what you learnt in school or college, but what you learnt later in life. Just because you graduated and threw that cap up, that does not mean that's the last time you ever learned anything.
- Ronnie Screwvala, Moneycontrol interview

Think about this

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Beware of shepherds too

The sheep will spend its entire lifetime fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd.

- African proverb

Intervention breeds intervention

One of the downsides of intervention is it breeds more intervention.
- Raghuram Rajan, ex-RBI governor

Failure to learn from failures is a bigger failure

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- William Saroyan

Failure to learn from failures is a bigger failure.
- Rahul Gupta

Belief powers enthusiasm

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
- Hannah Senesh

The Impossible Disguise of Opportunity

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Expect no Expectations

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

economic indicators lag stock market

while the traditional economic indicators come with an information lag, stock market participants are constantly gauging the present, and what the future could hold for businesses, livelihoods, and recovery
- Nithin, The Ken

Making a choice isn't a choice

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.


where is Mr. Zen?

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Harvest matters but so do seeds

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Stevenson

Habit is the beginning of an end

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
- Julio Cortázar

Survival Instincts Inc

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects!

fuel your finiteness

Your energy is finite! share it with those that fuel it, not deplete it.