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

“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

“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