Wisdom from Captain Gopinath:

·         One has to be proactive and steer the course to make things happen.

         When you have an iron will and an indomitable spirit, the God’s them self join in the combat and the universe conspires to help you succeed.

·   Characteristic of Leadership depends on your willingness to bring in people smarter than yourself

·      Great Leadership requires great humility and the vision to look beyond one’s own role and create value and sustainability without arrogance.

·    Your business will succeed only when you can’t pay your rent, you can’t pay salaries, you can’t buy your wife a saree, and you can’t pay your children’s school fees. Then you will learn to innovate. You will be forced to improve.

   Nothing breeds invention like necessity. Necessities will ensure you do not become complacent. You will be unable to sleep because your business may go bankrupt. This is how your business will succeed. Any other way of setting up a venture is a receipt of disaster.

·         When you decide that you won’t give up till it happens, then it happens
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·        Happiness is a mirage if you look at it as a destination to arrive at. If you take joy in the everyday things of life, you will never need to embark on a journey towards an elusive destination. If work is your joy, you never need to toil at all in your life. Happiness is no pinnacle to attain. It doesn’t exist as a destination and is meaningful only as a journey.

·       What sees us through difficult situation in life is not resources but the ability to be resourceful.

·         If something is not ecologically sound, it is not economically viable.

·      Most jobs in large cities have become very much like the toil of Sisyphus. People do no love what they do, but do it nonetheless for the money it brings. The tragedy is …..…that worker has no idea of the value they bring in.

·         You need not possess a lot to be able to give and share.

·     If faced with something unfair don’t sit back and moan and wallow in melancholy; revolt and fight against it.

·    Look beyond the obvious ‘black’ and ‘white’ of life and judge people and situations in the fail light of reason and tolerance.

·       A vision is an ideal. If you have reached it you may have reached a goal but a vision is something that drives you because it is almost impossible to achieve. It is something virtual. 

·        An entrepreneur must not only create a new product but fundamentally alter the very behavior of consumers; create societal change.

·        When people say it cannot be done, don’t accept it easily but get into the habit of checking the rule book yourself.

·        Lack of imagination was perhaps the only limiting factor in any new enterprise or experiment.

·        Competition can only kill business when the business is inefficient. Competition helps to improve quality and brings down prices and is therefore good for the consumers.

·         He who walks stumbles.

·         Beyond a point one gives oneself over to the tide of destiny.

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