Sankar Madhavan

“even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
― Phil Town, Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week

“I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

“the world’s interactions with Africa are not necessarily motivated by altruism, but by the self-interest of states seeking to maximize their opportunities and minimize their costs, often at the expense of those who are not in a position to do either.”
― Wangari Maathai, The Challenge for Africa

“If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst