Verghese Kurien quotes

“I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.”
-- Verghese Kurien

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“In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want”
-- Verghese Kurien

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“India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals”
-- Verghese Kurien

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“The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.”
-- Verghese Kurien

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“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.”

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.

“But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.”

“The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.”

“Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.”

“Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

“I think it's really important to live in the moment.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”