Narayana Murthy Quotes

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened. You can go as relatively quasi-harmless as saying no one went to the moon. But you also can say that the Holocaust never happened.

Just because you read it in a magazine,
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”

Cocaine addiction is God's way of saying "You make too damn much money!

Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

?There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

The opposite of work is idleness. But very few of us know what to do with idleness. When you look at the way that we distribute our lives in general, you realize that in the periods in which we have a lot of money, we have very little time. And then when we finally have time, we have neither the money nor the health.

?sogar daß ihm auch wohl Philosophen, als einer gewissen Veredelung der Menschheit, eine Lobrede halten, uneingedenk des Ausspruchs jenes Griechen: »Der Krieg ist darin schlimm, daß er mehr böse Leute macht, als er deren wegnimmt«.

? my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.

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

唯女子與小人爲難養也！近之則不孫，遠之則怨。