G.R. Gopinath

Sorrow and self-pity consume enormous quantities of energy. If you only can desist from feeling victimized by fate and look for a new solution instead, not only would you conserve old energies but at the same time also feel the surge of the new. New hope is kindled in the process.

Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

When you start something you cannot give yourself a time-frame for success. You can't say: if it doesn't work out in six-months I will give up. Your only task is to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve the goal.

The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.