Mahendra Quotes & Sayings

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

A good portfolio manager knows which companies to keep and which ones to let go. Many a GP has struggled with portfolio companies that cannot meet their value-creation milestones, or raise additional follow-on rounds of capital, or generate target returns in a time span of, say, five to seven years. The faster you recognize those losses, the better it is."
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"As David Cowan says, "Just focus on your top five - the rest is distraction." The harder part of the investor's discipline is to know when to quit."
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"You have to constantly scan all of those things and be willing to adjust your own sense of what's a reasonable outcome and move the company into a position where it has the maximum chance to succeed. "
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"Time is your enemy: Portfolio companies always take twice as much capital and twice as long to exit. Early-stage companies rarely meet milestones as planned and always burn cash faster than anticipated. — Mahendra Ramsinghani

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Amidst all the hype and hoopla around this business, I wanted to emphasize the challenge - it is seductive but the failure rate is very high. And those who fail have no good place to go. — Mahendra Ramsinghani

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity. — P.G. Wodehouse

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl Of Orrery

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain. — Sophocles

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

For me, opposition is just another opposition. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Why - for us and only us - is the other side of free will and free spirits an assault on our bodies? — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is Good But Sourav Ganguly Best Captain — Yuvraj Singh

Dear Author,

Don't know how else to contact you so writing here.
I would like to access the source - 'Seva Di Var' that you've referenced in your book. Could you please shed some light on how to reach this important and less known work of Kulapati Misra.

Thank you,
Virendra — Mahendra Pratap Singh

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes. — Bob Dylan

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. — Clay Shirky

Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take. — Robert M. Pirsig

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. — Larry McMurtry

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida. — Diana Nyad

Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat. — Rick Riordan

Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

First-time fund is acceptable, but not a first-time investor. — Mahendra Ramsinghani

People were unable to appreciate the worth of what was profound and stable which provided them with a safe anchor, so ruminated Mahendra. On the other hand, people foolishly ran after what was ephemeral and deceptive which gave one no real contentment - life's most desirable prize! — Sukhendu Ray

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a terrific match winner in any Condition — Sourav Ganguly

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I never allow myself to be pressured. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity. — Jon Voight

I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Landsend in Mumbai. It was my 100th visit recently, which means I have spent more than 400 days in that hotel, and that is a lot more than I have spent with my family. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions. — Mike Svob

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni