Best 13 quotes of C. K. Prahalad on MyQuotes

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.

Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.

Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

The real source of market promise is not the wealthy few in the developing world, or even the3 emerging middle-income consumers. It is the billions of aspiring poor who are joining the market economy for the first time.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.