Aj Parikh

“Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Pates of Human Societies illustrates how farm-based societies that generated a surplus of food ultimately gave rise to professional specialization.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Don’t order from the menu. Apple’s celebrated 1997 “Think Different” ad campaign featured icons like Ali, Dylan, Einstein, Hitchcock, Picasso, Gandhi, and others who “saw things differently” and who went on to transform the world we know. The point was that they didn’t choose from the available options; they imagined outcomes that no one else had. They ignored the menu and ordered their own creations. As the ad reminds us, “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the only ones who do.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Indeed, one of the principal fears of the American Patriots in the run-up to the war was that Parliament would unleash the East India Company in the Americas to loot there as it had done in India.”
― William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire