Aj Parikh

“The EIC was, as one of its directors admitted, ‘an empire within an empire’, with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the East.”
― William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

“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

“Dweck points out that mindsets can and do change. Like any other habit, you set your mind to it until the right mindset becomes routine.”
― 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