Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

The sign of a great leader is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Usually, you can figure out where a person's mistakes came from if you ask them the genesis of their thought process: 'Why did you do it this way?' As opposed to telling them they did it the wrong way. Understanding their thought process will ultimately help you be able to communicate with them and navigate around them.

I'm pretty smart.

For me, education is very important. It opens up vistas of life and makes it easy for you to deal with it, because if you learn from other people's experiences, it enhances your life.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I just think knowledge makes the world go 'round, man. So, if that makes me a geek, then cool.