Prahalad Quotes

#1. 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.

C. K. Prahalad

#2. Sometimes the path we must walk is long and must be traveled alone. Even when others are by our side, there is no one with us.

L.J. Baker

#3. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends.

Steven Furtick

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

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

#8. 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.

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

#12. The God in me winks at the God in you. And

Peggy Senger Morrison

#13. 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.

C. K. Prahalad

#14. 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.

C. K. Prahalad

#15. 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.

C. K. Prahalad

#16. Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.

Evan Esar

#17. We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Terry Brooks

#18. The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

Willie Nelson

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

C. K. Prahalad

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

C. K. Prahalad

#21. What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

Thomas R. Marshall

#22. You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

Lois Lowry

#23. I am not eloquent.

Moses

#24. - and we're going to make them rue the day they let that little bit of slime, Malfoy, buy his way onto their team. Chest

J.K. Rowling

#25. I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

John Shelby Spong

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

C. K. Prahalad

#27. There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux

#28. 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?'

C. K. Prahalad