Verghese Kurien Quotes

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

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I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

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In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.

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Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

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