‘The greatest asset is a strong mind’ – 60 quotes from Indian startup journeys
From methodology to mindset, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 60 gems and insights from the week of January 8-14 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights.
If you know how to learn to learn, you can do anything. – Byju Raveendran
Talent speaks beyond everything. - DJ Paroma
When you combine escapes with passions, money is a side effect. And love is a side effect. – James Altucher
The best way to shut mouths is to perform. – Anil Kumble
Work is something that excites. - Sulaj Kini, Bell Paints
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. – Stephen Hawking
The greatest asset is a strong mind. - PV Sindhu
Art comes alive when it has a soul. - Suresh Huidrom, Harts Studios
Authors always carry multiple stories within them, waiting to be bundled up and let out the door. - Rupa Bhullar, ‘The Indigo Sun’
Create situations that force you to become more than of what you are now. – Vartika Kashyap, ProofHub
Edutainment will beat entertainment eventually. - Amit Agarwal, OckyPoocky
I have seen the transformative strength of goodness and the healing power of gentleness. – Shah Rukh Khan
Mobile banking now accounts for more than 50 percent of all digital transactions, and will outpace netbanking this year. – ICICI Bank
You may be driving, watching TV, browsing the internet or reading a magazine when you hit on an idea. - Anjali Singh, Azilaa
For the investors, it is more important to know who they are investing in. – Swati Bhargava, CashKaro
Healthcare is on the cusp of a sound revolution. - Arvind Badrinarayanan, Taal
Typically venture debt begins to mature into a market after the equity market has been around for a while. - Ashish Sharma, InnoVen Capital
The number of farmers who have defaulted on agriculture loans has increased due to repeated droughts in the region. - Kaveri Grameen Bank, Kora
If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution. – Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Only a fraction of all venture capital funding is going to the education sector but the long-term impact an investment in this sector can make is exponential. - Vishal Bharat, ECF
One can live without electricity and internet in Kashmir, but not without kangri. - Mohammad Mairaj
For a growing number of people, the idea of travel has changed from ticking off places on your bucket list, to gaining and gathering new experiences. - Vandana Vijay, Offbeat Tracks
An accelerator is a strategic choice that permits enormous corporates to remain relevant and focused. - Sayantan Dasgupta, EVC
Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable. - Matt Mullenweg, WordPress
The best time to introduce change is when employees are ready to embrace change and are excited about it. And there is no better time for it than the new year! – Sanna Vohra, The Wedding Brigade
At least 5-10 percent of traffic congestions can be avoided if people stopped moving in different directions erratically at junctions. - Sachin Kamaladharan, SMIDER
What is the difference between identity, authentication and authorisation? - Vinay Sreenivas, Alternative Law Forum
The major challenge for UIDAI is to protect the data under its control. - RBI
We don't have a separate privacy law, which is critical now, with the huge proliferation of personal data. – Prabhakar Mundkur, HGS Interactive
No legislation can change the mindset, it's only education that can help change attitudes. - Subhash Mendhapurkar, SUTRA
Even law has a lot of loopholes which companies often worry about. – Aditya Shrivastava, IPleaders
Detecting the best talent for your project is a mix of experience, practice, analysis, and strategy. - Pramod Panchagnula, ScaleLabs
Problem recognition is the key to problem resolution. – Abhishek Agarwal, The Judge Group
To make the most out of the emerging opportunities, P2P lending players will need to work together. - Vinay Mathews, Faircent.com
Bringing the next 100 million customers online will take years. – Satish Meena, Forrester Research
It’s the openness to trying new things and willingness to adapt, and burning desire to grow that would make the SME graduate into a much bigger company. - Arivudinambi Jagannathan, FreshOrder
Organisations that are not creating new digital business models or new ways to engage constituents or customers are falling behind. - John David Lovelock, Gartner
Startups push your career to the next level and your growth is super fast. But you also run a risk of instability. – Vishwas Mudgal, GoodWorkLabs
Don’t be embarrassed by your failures. Learn from them and start all over again. – Richard Branson
So much of academic economics is just about narrow specialisation and learning everything about nothing. - Ajay Shah, IGIDR
The feeling of making a difference is what keeps you going. - Ankur Bhatnagar
When you purchase sustainable clothing, you are making a conscious decision to purchase recycled clothes or an ethically manufactured piece. - Thasneem Masood, Rossbelle
Hearing-impaired children can become self-sufficient, provided we shift the focus from numbers to the quality of care. - Devangi Dalal, Josh Foundation
Chinese cellular operators accounted for nearly half the world’s IoT connections in the October-December quarter. - Counterpoint Research
Having perfectly happy customers is the first step, but it’s hardly enough. You have to ask them to create the kind of testimonials that become stories you can use. – Esther Choy, ‘Let the Story do the Work’
Effective waste management is a sizeable opportunity for companies. - Jaideep Khanna, Artha Capital
Zero landfill is our motto. We don’t want waste to be waste, we want to get wealth out of it. - DG Nagaraj, Mysuru City Corporation
Software is not only a catalyst in transforming ideas into outcomes but is also a competitive differentiator. - Sunil Manglore, CA Technologies
The last thing you want is spending six to nine months on an idea, only to realise later NOBODY will ever pay you for it. – Zubin Ajmera, Progress and Win
Be aware of change, especially the change that begins with yourself. - President Ram Nath Kovind
The ad tech industry has ways to go before convincingly making a case for blockchain applications, let alone cryptocurrency. - Vitaly Pecherskiy, StackAdapt
In terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending. - Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway
Lowered risks and costs, along with increasing innovation, means that blockchain technology is going to be integral to financial services in times to come. – Sirish Kumar, Telr
Tech can also be a force that stimulates and expands creativity beyond normal boundaries. - Marguerite Courtel, Art of Change 21
Nanotechnology has very exciting implications for life-saving and lifestyle enhancing procedures, such as angioplasty. - Prakash Sojitra, Concept Medical
Every day Blockchain technology is changing the norm and encouraging innovation. - Alex Holmes, MoneyGram
Filmmaking equipment is getting shorter, powerful, and affordable due to the latest technologies. Our smartphones are also turning into tools to make films. – Ankit Kapoor, MovieTime CinePlex
IoT unlocks huge opportunities for UI, UX and application developers. – Lovleen Bhatia, Edureka
To remain relevant, technology vendors must integrate AI into every aspect of their devices, or face marginalisation. - Roberta Cozza, Gartner
Today, India does not have more than 100 employable AI engineers. Most of the guys who know AI have floated their own companies. - Kamal Karanth, Xpheno
India is today the largest freelancer market in the world and poised for growth. - Narsi Subramanian, PayPal India
The key budget expectations are to increase allocation for infrastructure and in agriculture. - Venu Kondur, Lobb
India needs to have a business-ready ecosystem that also recognises the IPs of international patent holders. - Kaushik Dutta, TARI
I have to change the entire education system in India so that poor villagers can rise up and have a good life. - Ravi Kumar Yadav, Englishbolega
India has one of the lengthiest Constitutions in the world, but no laws or rights make any sense when they are not implemented. – Vibha Setlur, LegalChap.com
The marketplace for cup branding will continue to be strong and popular and it is scalable in India as well as the global market. - Rahul Shah, Ola
India lacks in quality and safety when it comes to glass making equipment. - Reshmi Dey, Glass Sutra
The big global brands are uncompromising about features such as security and robustness. - Anoop Balakrishnan, Agrima
It is a fierce, competitive and lonely battle out there. Be prepared to be un-rewarded and un-recognised for a long time. - Rajesh Pandey, photographer
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).
