C. K. Prahalad Quotes
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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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.
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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.
