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Silence

"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to."

- Thomas Hardy

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी) (19 November 1917 - October 31, 1984) She was the Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was India's first and to date only female prime minister. She is noted for creating a dictatorship by declaring Emergency after a court struck down her election in 1975, and also for her handling of the Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants, which eventually resulted in her assassination.

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Life

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

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Homi J. Bhabha

Homi Jehangir Bhabha (October 30, 1909 – January 24, 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist of Parsi-Zoroastrian heritage who had a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program and is considered to be the father of India's nuclear program.

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Future

"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Albert Camus

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Martin Roll

Martin Roll offers rare but truly unique insights drawn from his experiences in advising boardrooms of global corporations for more than 15 years. He expertly strides the industry-academia continuum and delivers superior value to his global audiences. Martin Roll is a frequent guest lecturer at INSEAD business school and Visiting Professor at CEIBS in Shanghai. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

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Writing

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

- Walter Bagehot

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Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar

Doreswamy Iyengar, generally known as Mysore V Doreswamy Iyengar (1920 - 1997), was born into a family of musicians. His father, Venkatesha Iyengar, was himself a Vainika and a musician in the court of the Maharaja of Mysore.

He started learning the Veena from his father at an early age and soon became the disciple of Veena Venkatagiriyappa one of the foremost Vainikas of the day in Mysore. He gave his first public performance in 1943, in the Bangalore Gayana Samaja. He participated in music conferences including the one in Shiraz, Iran in 1969.

He studied BA in the Maharaja’s College in Mysore. He was the music director of the All India Radio in Bangalore. The University of Mysore conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate in 1975.

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Experience

It takes as much courage to have tried & failed as it does to have tried & succeeded.

- Anne Lindbergh

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Frank Maguire

Frank Maguire is one of the nation’s leading authorities on corporate culture, leadership, customer service, productivity and communications. As the first Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations for FedEx, Maguire is the creator of the corporate culture that made the company the multi-billion dollar success story of the past 20 years. He helped turn the phrase “absolutely, positively overnight” from a promise to a guarantee.

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Experience

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

- Victoria Holt

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Michael Watkins

Dr. Michael Watkins is a widely-published expert on leadership. He is author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels. Considered ‘the on-boarding bible ,’ more than 200,000 copies have been sold in over 20 languages. Watkins coined the term ‘Predictable Surprise’ in his book Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them, which won the 2006 Kulp-Wright Book Award and was named a Strategy + Business best business book of 2004.

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Success

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)

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Frank Maguire

Frank Maguire is one of the nation’s leading authorities on corporate culture, leadership, customer service, productivity and communications. As the first Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations for FedEx, Maguire is the creator of the corporate culture that made the company the multi-billion dollar success story of the past 20 years. He helped turn the phrase “absolutely, positively overnight” from a promise to a guarantee.

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Life

"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."

- Amelia Burr

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Michael Watkins

Dr. Michael Watkins is a widely-published expert on leadership. He is author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels. Considered ‘the on-boarding bible ,’ more than 200,000 copies have been sold in over 20 languages. Watkins coined the term ‘Predictable Surprise’ in his book Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them, which won the 2006 Kulp-Wright Book Award and was named a Strategy + Business best business book of 2004.

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Success

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

- Marquis de Vauvenargues


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Mirza Ismail

Sir Mirza Muhammad Ismail (1883-1959) was a Diwan of the Kingdom of Mysore. A childhood friend of the king Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, he acted as the king’s private secretary (1923-1926) and later worked as the Diwan from 1926-41. His contributions include the development of the Brindavan Gardens and launching the first rural electrification programme in India. Like one of his predecessors Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya, he was known for being industry friendly and it was during his tenure that Hindustan Aeronautics Limited was set up. Other industries started during his period as diwan include paper, cement, steel, fertilizers, sugar and electric bulbs.

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The Myth of Tomorrow

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Success

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

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Daniel Pink

Daniel’s newest book, A Whole New Mind (published in Feb. 2005), is about the six essential aptitudes white-collar workers must master to survive and thrive in an outsourced, automated, upside-down world. This book is soon to be published in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, France and the United Kingdom.

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Intelligence

"The true sign of intelligence isn't knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

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Jesse Jacksons

Reverend Jackson is one of America’s foremost civil rights, religious and political figures. Over the past forty years he has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement for empowerment, peace, civil rights, gender equality, and economic and social justice. Jackson has been called the "Conscience of the Nation" and "the Great Unifier," challenging America to be inclusive and to establish just and human priorities for the benefit of all. He is known for bringing people together in common ground across lines of race, culture, class, gender and belief.

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Wisdom

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

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Tom Peters

Tom is a civil engineering graduate of Cornell (B.C.E., M.C.E.) and business graduate of Stanford (M.B.A., Ph.D.) He holds honorary doctorates from several institutions, including the State University of Management in Moscow.

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Efficiency

"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."

- Peter F. Drucker

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Dasara

Dasara, also called "Navaratri",[citation needed] is among the most important festivals celebrated in India. Unlike Dussera, this is celebrated for 10 days in Southern parts.

The Festival of Dasara is celebrated on the occasion of Navaratri. Celebrations are unique ranging from worshipping goddess Chamundeshwari (Durga) to exhibiting colorful toys on the day of 'bombe habba' in Kannada.

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Learning

"A youngman graduated yesterday stopped learning today will be an uneducated tomorrow."

- unknown

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Servqual

The SERQUAL method from Valarie A.Zeithman, A.Parasuraman, and Leonard L.Berry is a technique that can be used for performing a gap analysis of an organization's service quality performance against customer service quality needs.
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Success

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most enduringly popular
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Success

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

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Steven Levitt

Steven Levitt is co-author of the 2005/2006 global #1 bestseller, Freakonomics, and recently was named one of Time Magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World."

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Help

"Complain to one who can help you."

- Yugoslav Proverb

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S. R. Bommai

S.R.Bommai was the chief minister of Karnataka state in India.He is native of Hubballi.He was elected to Karnataka Legislative assembly many times from Hubli rural constituency.He was president of All India Progressive Janata Dal Party.He was also union minister in government of India.He played role in unification(Ekikarna in Kannada) of parts of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom,Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency ,during rule of British before independence of India on 15 August 1947.

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Success

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

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Jack Welch

Jack Welch received his B.S. degree from his home town University of Massachusetts and in 1960 his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois.

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Success

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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Carly Fiorina

Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy from Stanford University. She holds a master's degree in business administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a master of science degree from MIT's Sloan School.

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AIM

"High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds."

- Tryon Edwards

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Guru Gobind Singh

The tenth and the last Guru or Prophet-teacher of the Sikh faith, was born Gobind Rai Sodhi on Poh 7, 1723 sk/22 December 1666 at Patna, in Bihar. His father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, the Ninth Guru, was then travelling across Bengal and Assam. Returning to Patna in 1670, he directed his family to return to the Punjab
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Success

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)

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Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto has published two books, The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path both of which have been international bestsellers and have been translated into 20 languages. The Mystery of Capital was chosen as one of the ten best business and finance books for 2000 in the US and the UK

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Power

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."

- John Stuart Mill

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Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. He became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1992 and taught courses in Technology and Operations Management, General Management, and Operations Strategy. He then developed a course called Managing Innovation. Clayton worked as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Republic of Korea from 1971 to 1973 and speaks fluent Korean. He continues to serve in his church in a variety of ways and is extensively involved in other activities in the community. Professor Christensen is the author of the bestselling books The Innovators Dilemma (1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, and The InnovatorÕs Solution (2003). His latest book, Seeing WhatÕs Next, was published in November 2004. In addition, he edited two casebooks on Innovation: Innovation and the General Manager (1999) and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th edition (2004).

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Listening

"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."

- Dorothy Sarnoff

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Ori Brafman

Ori Brafman has been a lifelong entrepreneur in business, government, and the nonprofit sector. His projects include launching healthy fast food restaurants, leading political and advocacy campaigns, and co-founding Courtroom Connect, a wireless network company.

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Truth

"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."

- Han Suyin

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Scott Bedbury

His book, A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century, explains how to apply the principles that grew Nike and Starbucks more than fivefold and established their trademarks as leaders in their industries. The book lays out groundbreaking ideas for developing strong, lasting and great brands - that are widely desired and trusted. It contains practical advice based on Scott's experiences inside Nike and Starbucks and as an advertising executive and brand development consultant.

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Respect

"If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."

- Spanish Proverb

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Rod Beckstrom

Rod Beckstrom is a serial start-up entrepreneur and co-author of The Starfish and the Spider: the Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.

Rod has the gift of being able to design innovative organizations to support a product or idea. When he was still a student at Stanford Business School, he published the first universal mathematical model for pricing interest rate and currency swaps. At the same time he co-founded CATS Software, Inc., a risk management software company, out of his apartment with $20,000. Rod was forced to become an astute student of organizations when as Chairman and CEO he quickly grew CATS from a product idea into a worldwide company listed on the NASDAQ. He then sold the company for more than $100 million in cash and earn-outs.

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