Chanda Kochhar Quotes
India did not innovate with the ATMs. But when we brought ATMs into India and made the machines talk in 15 regional languages to the people in rural India, we got millions of transactions on the ATM.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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India did not innovate with the ATMs. But when we brought ATMs into India and made the machines talk in 15 regional languages to the people in rural India, we got millions of transactions on the ATM.
