Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

You can't just go visit somewhere and come away and know how they run their business.

I think about culture and values as curbs on a highway. When the curbs are high enough, a vehicle can veer to the left or right, but the curbs keep the car on the road. It is the CEO's job to build those curbs as high as possible.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.

Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.