C K Prahalad Quotes

#1. The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.

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#2. If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

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#3. Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination.

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#4. Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

Miley Cyrus

#5. When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Rhys Ifans

#6. History is what we read, write and think about the past.

Michael Howard

#7. How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.

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#8. Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

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#9. With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.

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#10. Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

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#11. Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith ... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

Martin Luther

#12. It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Dorothy Hamill

#13. Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

Vidya Balan

#14. If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you're not an entrepreneur.

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#15. The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.

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#16. There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

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#17. When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap.

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#18. Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

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#19. The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers

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#20. My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Edwin Moses

#21. Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

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#22. The effectiveness of a new culture depends on the strength of the people behind the change and the strength of the pre-existing culture.

Steve Gruenert

#23. If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

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