Chanda Kochhar Quotes

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

India, with one of the largest education systems in the world, has always been a priority for Khan Academy.

You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

I'm also a big believer of being a scrappy entrepreneur. To be successful you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them. And that's why it's so much easier for younger people, I think, to start companies that are challenging more traditional business models than older people. Especially if you're trying to do something good.

Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend to be slightly separate.