Kurien Quotes

#1. You must always remember that you are Kurien's second wife. His first wife is the dairy. Don't ever forget that and don't make yourself miserable by being jealous. And never, never try to snatch your husband away from his first wife.

Verghese Kurien

#2. I have always believed that once you identify the best person for a particular project and tell him or her exactly what you expect, you must put your complete trust in that person, allowing him or her to work independently without interference. If you do, the project is bound to succeed.

Verghese Kurien

#3. I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture.

Verghese Kurien

#4. All you really have...is now.

Laura Wiess

#5. India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

Verghese Kurien

#6. Long hours of working barefoot in the pans saturates their legs so much with salt that these farmers cannot even have a satisfactory cremation after death because their lower limbs do not burn. It is a miserable existence.

Verghese Kurien

#7. Every day we're given chances to embrace the new.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#8. Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

Elizabeth George

#9. payment, an economist was included in the product-design team. Microeconomists no longer just study how existing firms work, they help design new ones.

Anonymous

#10. The judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

Eddie Mair

#11. I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

Verghese Kurien

#12. I have found, in over fifty years of confronting governments and defending cooperatives from political and bureaucratic interference, that when you begin demanding what is rightfully yours, there are many people even within the bureaucratic system who ensure that you retain those rights.

Verghese Kurien

#13. You were right about Kastor,' Damen said.
It was all he said.

C.S. Pacat

#14. If the situation demanded autocracy, I gave it autocracy.

Verghese Kurien

#15. We Indians are an extremely intelligent people but we can progress as a nation only when we learn the secret of unleashing this positive power of the people. Whenever this happens it disturbs a lot of people - because they know that a giant is waking up.

Verghese Kurien

#16. I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Catie Curtis

#17. Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

Verghese Kurien

#18. How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

John Nolte

#19. I began to see then that when the government enters business, the citizens of India get cheated. The greatest repercussion of the government entering into business is that instead of safeguarding people from vested interests, they themselves become the vested interest.

Verghese Kurien

#20. a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

Verghese Kurien