Narayana Murthy Quotes

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness.

A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

I marvel at how one role model can alter for the better the future of a young student. This experience taught me that valuable advice can sometimes come from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors.

Don't you know that a good and excellent person does nothing for the sake of appearances, but only for the sake of having acted right?

Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off! [laughs]

Sometimes, if there are a lot of people around me when I go to a store, I feel a bit intimidated. I used to be shy. I still consider myself shy, but I'm a little better now and I'm getting used to it.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

There is nothing difficult about becoming a sage, and nothing false about transcending the world of appearances.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.