N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

I have an impact and people look up to me now. It's more than the money.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

There is no good leader. First of all, if you think you are a leader, you are just messed up in your head. People should think you are a leader. If you think you are a big success, again, you are messed up. Other people should think you are a success.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

It really helps to know what success is before you get there, and if you know, then you can head right for it. For some people, it's the most money. For some, it's the most power. For some, it's the most girlfriends. Everybody's got a measure. For me, I guess it's having the respect and admiration of your peers.

I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.