Sharad Vivek Sagar Quotes

All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because I care. Please remember, to pay back. Not to me, but to the world. Preferably, donate to a non-profit which will never receive the investments that you can and you are; donate to children and youth who want to do good things, to families that need you, to social startups that sweat day in and day out to bring smiles, and to anyone who cares for PEOPLE more than PROFITS. My salary will be drawn. I will be paid back in full. Thank you!
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I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.
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If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.
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I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees.
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People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.
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Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.
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The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.
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This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.
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The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become.
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For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.
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We got up at 6am to go to school for a few years and we found it so challenging. Some people in our country have woken up at 6am every single morning for decades now so that this nation can wake up and see great mornings. I salute all those wonderful super humans who are inspiring a better tomorrow. Thank you, Teachers!
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What hurts me is the fact that in India, a good doctor is one whom you have to take an appointment with even before you fall sick. Else, you will die but not get treated. A good school is one that won't admit you even if you are in Lower Kindergarten. A good minister is one won't meet you till are some VIP. I want to change this in my lifetime by democratizing education and opportunities.
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When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions.
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Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves.
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The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.
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Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
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The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.
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An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision.
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You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.
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If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.
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With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.
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There's a reason why I've spent one-third of my life doing this. My dream is to meet and connect 3 billion young people of the world to information and opportunities in my lifetime.
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It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left.
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Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
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We need to take things personally. We need to stop putting profits above people. We need to stop putting greed above need. We need to stop putting the rule of gold above the golden rule. We need to treat people as people and not as problems.
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Just because you can't believe it, doesn't mean it's not happening
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We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.
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I wonder how can I ever work for an organization that pollutes the world and refuses to clean up and sometimes even own up. And, I wonder how on earth can I work for an organization where one of my fellow classmates wouldn’t get the same paycheck and the same perks and the same benefits as I would simply because she is a girl.
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I am not concerned about results. The only thing I am concerned about is the process. How you tried to achieve something matters more than what you achieved.
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Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.
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To all young people out there: This is the time you should be fearless but not jobless. Identify the right job, find what excited you the most, find what you are the most passionate about.
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I refuse to believe in three things: cash, clock, and calendar. You should never be enslaved by these three.
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To all the students - no school report card can tell you weather you can achieve your dream or not. Know your purpose, know your dream, know your vision, stay focused, do your job and do not listen to anyone including your report card. Don’t let the board results or rankings bother you. Do what you are passionate about, work harder, do better but don’t let your mark sheet tell you anything.
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You've to stand up for yourself. If you don't, no one else will.
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What's usual for us may not be the same for everyone. I'm inspired by lives and stories of all those amazing people who overcome extraordinary challenges each day to live what we see as an ordinary life.
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Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters
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Consistency. Clarity. Courage. I like to stand for consistency, clarity and courage in my thoughts, words, and actions.
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Before you talk to the world, talk to yourself. And, before you listen to the world, listen to yourself.
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We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school
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The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it.
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Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.
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There's magic in stories, magic in hope, and magic in coming together. I have learnt from people's stories, been inspired by their hope, and been strengthened by their coming together.
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Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the world of your dreams, imagine everything you ever wanted, live that moment, get the feel of it. Once you've lived that moment in your mind fully, open your eyes and get started with work, work as hard as possible, do all that it takes to live that moment in real. Just do it, it's possible.
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Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it’s been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even perfect strangers. Let’s be grateful to each one of them, let’s be grateful to all those around us.
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May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.
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There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.
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Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do.
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We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.
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Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.
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Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.
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Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!
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I know I could’ve been on the other side of the line too. I refuse to accept injustice and inequality because I know it can be against any one of us, our brothers and sisters and friends and family. I know it’s personal. I know this is our only chance, our only planet, our only shot. And, I know this is my brick.
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Change takes time. But, it also takes people.
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I’d always heard people say and I’m sure you heard it too, “Change takes time.” But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, “Change takes time. But, it also takes people.” People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn’t happen by itself.
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Change needs us. Change needs people who are willing to invest themselves and their time and their energy and all that they can in making it happen. And, remember, if we don’t quit; if we choose to walk the more difficult path; if we refuse to give up, no matter how long the road or how steep the climb; we will make change happen.
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The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. And, for that, the world needs us. It needs us to get invested. It needs us to be more grateful. It needs us to take things personally! And, I know together we can make it happen. I know wherever you’ll go; you’ll stand for change, for peace, for justice, for equality, for each other, and for a better tomorrow. You’ll put in your brick. I know. I know.
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I know there are days when we want to be liked by others a little more than we want to change the world. But, if we decided to speak up a little more and hesitate a little less, we will begin making ripples of change.
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Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.
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I sometimes wonder how powerful are those Fortune 500 CEOs who can can’t even change the way that list looks (leave aside how the world looks). And, I wonder what message do we send to our young girls, in classrooms across the world, who work as hard as our young boys but see only 20 CEOs out of those 500 who look like them.
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