Nelson Mandela Quotes

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."

"Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it goes against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people."

"When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon."

"When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company."

"Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products."

"The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence."

"The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India."

"I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone."

"My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion."

"The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization."

"Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody."

"Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible."

"In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it."

"We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put."