Anindya Chatterjee Quotes

#1. The poorest of women is the one without close girlfriends #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#2. The Collectorship of Madna is the seventh post that he has held in eight years. He is quite philosophic about the law that governs the transfer of civil servants; he sees it as a sort of corollary to the law of karma, namely, that the whole of life passes through innumerable and fundamentally mystifying changes, and these changes are sought to be determined by our conduct, our deeds (otherwise, we would quite simply lose our marbles); only thus can we even pretend to satisfactorily explain the mystery of suffering, which is a subject that has troubled thoughtful souls all over the world since time immemorial. It is also a hypothesis that justifies the manifest social inequalities of the Hindu community. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#3. Freedom is the right to live without fear. #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#4. No one reveals himself more completely to others than to himself - that is, if he reveals himself at all. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#5. We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#6. A hero's talent lies latent within the self. It sleeps within him as seeds of possibilities. When discovered and nurtured, the seeds grow and flower. This flowering of his talent is a hero's true vocation. #Quote by Debashis Chatterjee

#7. Several years ago, Debashish Chatterjee, a good friend and well-known author on leadership1 opened a seminar on leadership at MIT by saying, 'I've been guided in my work by the notion that older is often better. If an idea has been around for a few thousand years, it's been submitted to many tests - which is a good indicator that it might have some real merit. We're fixated on newness, which often misleads us into elevating novelty over substance. #Quote by Peter M. Senge

#8. Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds? #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#9. I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#10. She slapped him. Hard. "Tell me!" she screamed, "TELL ME!".
"The truth is...I am a liar," Jack said quietly.
"Don't be one with me," she sobbed, "it hurts."
"The lies or the truth?" he asked. #Quote by Abhik Chatterjee

#11. Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it! #Quote by Amit Chatterjee

#12. To enter the corporate rat race, you need to become a rat. #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#13. Success comes from people (leaders) who are motivated by the change, not who need to be motivated by the change. #Quote by Amit Chatterjee

#14. Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#15. Indecision will be your epitaph. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#16. Future has a scheming, naughty and intelligent mind. It is never fully predictable! #Quote by Amit Chatterjee

#17. The question isn't what will a mother do to save her child. The question is, what won't a mother do to save her child! #Quote by Sunanda J. Chatterjee

#18. Our worth comes from the promises we keep. #Quote by Sunanda J. Chatterjee

#19. Mastery is more than the co-ordination of muscle and bone. It is about bringing the whole of us to what we do #Quote by Debashis Chatterjee

#20. People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#21. If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite. #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#22. Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents! #Quote by Amit Chatterjee

#23. When you start loving yourself, others around you will also start loving you. #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#24. He didn't want the friends of the different stages of his life to meet. Their encounter would almost be between different facets of himself, face to face. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#25. Do not let others drive that vehicle, called life, for you. Grab that steering wheel and discover unexplored destinations. #Quote by Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#26. Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams could be worth lakhs. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#27. Only when you die will you cease to feel ridiculous. #Quote by Upamanyu Chatterjee

#28. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. #Quote by Debashis Chatterjee

#29. Management is the kitchen that produces a delicious meal, where Leadership is the Chef hooked by a purpose across the canyon of risks that adds the fragrance and taste to make it go beyond expectations. #Quote by Amit Chatterjee

#30. People like you end up dead. One day they are roaming about in their underpants pretending to be Superman and the next day they are killed because they jump off their roof thinking that they can fly! #Quote by Abhik Chatterjee

#31. What if happiness was a choice? #Quote by Sunanda J. Chatterjee

#32. Success is a drink you enjoy on the journey towards happiness. Risk is, you could get drunk! #Quote by Amit Chatterjee