Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

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• Innovating Women is more important today than ever. Things are changing for the better. The recent announcements by Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook of their…
• We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
• You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE
• A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
• The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for…
• What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
• Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
• Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.
• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts…
• What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own.…
• A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.
• The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.
• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
• We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is…
• Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.
• Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.
• One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current.
• Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies…
• Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
• The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a…

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