Prahalad B Quotes & Sayings

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up. — C. K. Prahalad

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become. — C. K. Prahalad

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations. — C. K. Prahalad

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. — Pankaj Mishra

The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage. — C. K. Prahalad

When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap. — C. K. Prahalad

My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate — Julie Anne Peters

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past. — C. K. Prahalad

To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace. — Dillon Burroughs

With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen. — C. K. Prahalad

Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy. — C. K. Prahalad

I've been singing forever; I grew up singing in church. — Sevyn Streeter

If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?' — C. K. Prahalad

The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time. — C. K. Prahalad

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you're not an entrepreneur. — C. K. Prahalad

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale. — C. K. Prahalad

How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer. — C. K. Prahalad

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation. — C. K. Prahalad

Executives are constrained not by resources, but by their imagination. — C. K. Prahalad

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers — C. K. Prahalad

Fear usually looks like anger. — Krista Tippett