‘We do not do charity. We share our happiness’ – 30 quotes from Indian startup journeys
From innovation to impact, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 30 gems and insights from the week of June 12-18 with your colleagues and networks, and go back to the original articles for more insights.
One day you might be able to buy a fleet of cars, but you can’t buy time. — Vikas Khanna, Chef
Traditional water harvesting systems provide very simple, age-old, time-tested solutions to the water scarcity problems. — Shree Padre
Water literacy is very poor in our country. The urban population wastes more than the rural population. — Goutam Surana, Eco365
Educate yourself daily to become better and better. — Gitanjali Maini, Gallery G
India’s digital economy has acquired a momentum of its own and its low-cost digital technology is being talked about the world over. — Ravi Shankar Prasad, Electronics and Information Technology Minister
Public policy plays a pivotal role in creating an enabling environment conducive to innovation. — Chandrajit Banerjee, CII
Smaller colleges should have better professors… there, students need much more attention and encouragement, and exposure. — Ravi Suhag, GoJek
People in India seem to have the hunger to learn more and achieve more compared to other markets. — Ishan Gupta, Udacity
For decades insurances have been mis-sold, under the pretext of being an investment option. It is a cover and should be treated as just that. — Neelabh Sanyal, Kuvera
We are riddled with centuries of conscious and subconscious biases. As women, it falls upon us to correct them. — Chandni Jafri, Mumbai Angels
Remember that you are an entrepreneur, not a ‘woman tech entrepreneur’. You are likely to have it twice as difficult, be prepared for that. — Anu Acharya, MapMyGenome
A woman in the driver’s seat is a symbol of social change. — Suman Lata, Rural Self-Employment Training Institute
If you tell an engaging tale carrying an important message, it is bound to make people aware about the issue. — Syed Ahmed Afzal, Laal Rang
Serial entrepreneurs don’t normally build businesses; they create them to sell. It never works. — Ronnie Screwvala, USports
Consumer credit in India is highly underpenetrated and is a complex problem to solve. — Abheek Anand, Sequoia Capital India Advisors
The challenges for startups in online real estate is that people hardly entertain small companies when it comes to buying property. — Rounak Goklaney
Model rocketry is an over $1.2-billion global industry with India contributing zero to it. — Divyanshu Poddar, Rocketeers
In Chhattisgarh, the youth do not want to do farming because farming is the only business where the farmers have to take all kinds of risks without expecting profits. — Rupesh Baghel, farmer
Most of the urban workforce has a sedentary lifestyle, and yet, eats food designed for a labour-intensive day. — Shristi Shaw, WIMWI Foods
In less than 10 years, Gen Z digital natives will hold most of the buying power globally. — Manish Pillewar, Sahaj Software
Connected solutions are coming to India faster than you think. Our camera sensors use AI to enforce traffic laws. We are able to manage bus fleets on real-time traffic. — Vijay Ratnaparkhe, Robert Bosch Engineering India
The data generated is what companies should make use of to figure out new business models. — Naganand Doraswamy, Ideaspring Capital
The tech industry is going through a transformational shift with data right at the center. — Deepak Visweswaraiah, NetApp India
We are only beginning to understand the consumer needs robots can satisfy. — Sneh Vaswani, Emotix
There is nothing like getting pleasure and satisfaction out of your livelihood. — Ashok Gupta, traffic policeman
Often, we need to learn to get along with people we don’t really like; at times, we need to put a team ahead of an individual; frequently, we must accept failure or defeat. — Nupur Dhingra Paiva, Art of Sport
Bengaluru is among the top five most favourable ecosystems for startups in the world and the World Economic Forum has given it the ‘most dynamic city in the world’ tag. — Priyank Kharge, Karnataka IT and BT minister
Corporate boards, institutional funders, and CSR leaders grapple with the critical problems of CSR lifecycle management and impact measurement. — Siddharth Nautiyal, Omidyar Network
Ask if you are doing something that will make you money or something that will make your children more successful and your grandchildren happier. — Alan Cooper, ‘father of Visual Basic’
It is only after achieving positive cash flow that an entrepreneur is really in control of his/her own destiny. — Klaas Oskam, Signal Hill Capital Advisory
Coworking spaces are better than business centres, which are purely rental-based businesses. — Shiv Prasad Singh, RISCS
If you don’t have money, you don’t think about doing something frivolous. You focus on the core. — Florian Gschwandtner, Runtastic
We do not do charity. We share our happiness. — Abhijeet Chandra, K.ISH Initiative
YourStory has also published the pocketbook ‘Proverbs and Quotes for Entrepreneurs: A World of Inspiration for Startups’ as a creative and motivational guide for innovators (downloadable as apps here: Apple, Android).