Narayan Murthy Best Quotes

#1. Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#2. When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#3. If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#4. The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#5. India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#6. I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#7. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#8. The real monsters are born, not made. They are the ones who watch behind friendly faces. The ones who come for the innocent trying to steal everything they have, be it their most treasured possessions, their honour or their lives. Not because they must, not because their very existence relies on it but simply because there is a thrill in it for them. To watch a man pierced by wrath and greed die a lonely death, to watch a woman pierced by lust and anger whimper away in fear. It thrills them to watch man burn and bleed. Real monsters love to turn the sound of beautiful life into many a terrified scream. - Author: Narayan Liu

#9. You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face. - Author: R.K. Narayan

#10. Science is about unravelling nature. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#11. One who flaunts his half baked knowledge is the worker with no wages of light. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#12. Train yourself to be a good judge of your own work. Seek validation only from yourself and not from any external source. In the long run, you will discover that people appreciate you a lot more when you carry yourself well. At last you will gain the respect of people from whom you would otherwise seek validation from. - Author: K.N. Ajit Narayan

#13. Lead a life of wonder and not wondering - Author: Smitha Murthy

#14. I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#15. Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#16. Before fighting for truth, find the truth. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#17. This world,people around is a mirror where you see your deeds,your life and your behavior reflected back as you behave. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#18. When i see ahead,its dark, when i see behind, its dark. It's only my present which is bright, thus darkening everything beyond and behind. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#19. I have met so many people who are negative, and it tells on their attitude towards life and towards everything. - Author: Phaneesh Murthy

#20. Narayan's novels did not prepare me for the distress of India. As a writer he had succeeded almost too well. His comedies were of the sort that requires a restricted social setting with well-defined rules; and he was so direct, his touch so light, that, though he wrote in English of Indian manners, he had succeeded in making those exotic manners quite ordinary. I did not lose my admiration for Narayan; but I felt that his comedy and irony were not quite what they had appeared to be, were part of a Hindu response to the world, a response I could no longer share. Narayan's novels are less the purely social comedies I had once taken them to be than religious books, at times religious fables, and intensely Hindu. - Author: V.S. Naipaul

#21. If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at the teacher. - Author: R.K. Narayan

#22. I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#23. It's the irony of woman's life in that she tends to turn her assets to her own detriment in that while her psyche seeks to see her man strong; her instinct tries to weaken him. - Author: BS Murthy

#24. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#25. If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#26. I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#27. A man who preferred to dress like a permanent tourist was just what a guide passionately looked for all his life. You may want to ask why I became a guide or when. I was a guide for the same reason as someone else is a signaler, porter, or guard. It is fated thus. Don't laugh at my railway associations. The railways got into my blood very early in life. Engines with their tremendous clanging - Author: R.K. Narayan

#28. I was created out of thought so let my food be my thoughts and intellect my daily dose of survival - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#29. Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. - Author: R.K. Narayan

#30. Being Indian-American, I have tremendous potential to grow facial hair. - Author: Vivek Murthy

#31. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#32. I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow. - Author: N. R. Narayana Murthy

#33. If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments. - Author: R.K. Narayan

#34. Principal sahib, all festivals I celebrate, in every name of God I exhilarate, be it Allah, Christ or Mahadev. And all this naturally comes to me because the Hindu that at heart I be. That's why I wish to remain a Hindu, you see." Narayan Sambhan paused and then added quietly, "But I am speaking principal sahib only for myself entirely." The - Author: Sanjay Kumar Singh

#35. I was
I will be
I am - Author: Kunal Narayan Uniyal