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"It's actually none of that," said Sahar. "Entrepreneurs are no different than the rest of us, and I'm living proof of that"
"And yet, somehow, I've tapped into that entrepreneurial energy," she said. "Somehow, I've found it within me"
"The entrepreneurial mindset is not an abstract mindset change"
"Having to hustle switches on the entrepreneurial mindset"
"I loved the idea of starting my morning here"
"That was the first flame of entrepreneurship in me"
"All I had was a personal problem. I wanted a skinny latte every morning"
"I started. I got the flow going"
"Somehow, everything we didn't have clicked something on in my brain," Sahar said. "It made me problem solve the same way we problem solve outside—in a human way"
"A startup mindset is actually our only insurance policy in choppy waters"
"My motto in life is, 'leap and the net will appear"
"When you take the leap, something really powerful happens," Sahar said. "Your self-belief grows."
"It's never too early for this, and it's certainly never too late"
"One of my BIGGEST LEARNINGS across the years is that life isn’t just about MAKING MONEY – no one is a COIN MACHINE at their core"
"DISCOVERY is one of life’s GREAT JOYS and COMPARISON is a total WASTE OF TIME"
"I couldn’t understand why no one was having fun at work… I refused to accept that, these were meant to be the best years of my life"
"I was hit by a wave of freshly made coffee in the morning…I remember going to the bar and being asked ‘Soy cappuccino, latte, espresso?’ I fell in love with it"
"I was just like ‘Hang on Bobby, you’ve got me completely wrong, why doesn’t someone ELSE open a coffee bar for me to go to it? I didn’t see why I had to provide a solution to my own problem"
"I simply got an all-day tube pass for the circle line, and got off at every stop to see what they offered. It was disgusting filter coffee in polystyrene cups, and people were drinking it"
"I nearly died OD-ing on 26 espressos during a coffee tasting course – no one told us we had to spit them out, so Bobby and I just drank them all"
"Never let your ignorance stop you. You can teach yourself, and then you have the asset of a fresh perspective"
"We made our own coffee cups because no company knew how to make American-style coffee cups, no bakery knew how to make muffins"
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.