Sumantra Ghoshal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.
-- Sumantra Ghoshal

#Past #Yesterday #Challenges
You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
-- Sumantra Ghoshal

#Reality #Aspiration #Tension
Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesnâ€™t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.
-- Sumantra Ghoshal

#Ambition #Succeed #Driven
You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.
-- Sumantra Ghoshal

#People #Have Faith #Action

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.
Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Sumantra Ghoshal famous quotes

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