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""Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn" (2013) page 13"
"All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere."
""The best leaders are those who understand that their power comes not from their position, but from their ability to empower others." The 5 Levels of Leadership" (2011) page 21"
""Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." Book: "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (1998) page 12"
""A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." The Leadership Handbook" (2011), page 17"
""The greatest danger to most organizations is not external threats, but internal weaknesses." The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (1998) page 145"
"You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.