Ernesto Sirolli Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

#Successful Quotes #Collaboration Quotes #World Quotes

“The future of every community lies in capturing the passion, imagination, and resources of its people.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

#Lying Quotes #Passion Quotes #People Quotes

“If people don't want to be helped, leave them alone.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

Source : Ernesto Sirolli (1999). “Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies”, p.126, New Society Publishers

#People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Nobody in the world can succeed alone.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

Source : "Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!". TED Talks, www.ted.com. September 2012.

#World Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“The first principle of aid is respect.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

Source : "Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!". TED Talks, www.ted.com. September 2012.

#Principles Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Aids Quotes

“What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

#Ideas Quotes #Community Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.”
-- Ernesto Sirolli

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.”

“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

“In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.”

“Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.”

“A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.”

Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.24, Courier Corporation

“The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”