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Indira Gandhi
India
19 Nov 1917 // 31 Oct 1984
Stateswoman
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On Enterprise:
It is possible for a business venture to be an island of efficiency in a sea of sloth.
Speech (1967)
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On Mistake:
We have to be willing to forge out our own path, make our own mistakes and learn from our own mistakes, and from the mistakes go on to achievement.
Speech (1969)
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On Management:
It takes less time to put up a factory than to train men of competence to run it.
Speech (1968)
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On Industry:
For an infant industry, protection is a legitimate demand, but infants must grow up one day.
Speech (1971)
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On Entrepreneur:
No good entrepreneur should wish to sacrifice long-term interest for the sake of short-term profits.
Remark (1970)
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On Change:
Change is inevitable, but it is in us to control its content and directions.
Speech (1967)
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On Opportunity:
Opportunities are not offered; they must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and tenacity, determination and courage.
Speech (1968)
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On Problem:
In solving our problems, we should beware of creating worse ones.
Speech (1969)
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On Progress:
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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