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"I think about marketing as telling the story of what you're doing and why it might be valuable for someone. I think both [marketing and design] influence the other because, at the end of the day, the constituent is that you're thinking about the customer.”"
"“You're trying to empathize with [the customers to] get in their heads understand what their psychology is. What do they want? What do they need? You want to know that so that you can tell them the compelling story about why your product might be a great fit for what they need.”"
"“I always love this practice to write the press release or marketing brief because you want to know before building something how you will talk about it. If your story or brief isn’t compelling and doesn’t get people excited, then maybe you shouldn't build this thing.”"
"A lot of marketing's work is trying to help us understand. What is that narrative? We're telling what’s going to be compelling so that customers become directly influenced by the product.”"
"thumb|Julie Zhuo Collision Conf 2018 02“The brand is the impression that people have of your product and service. Whether they love it or whether they don't, you want people to know how they feel about your brand.”"
"“Product designers will say, ‘I'm not a brand person.’ No, the product that you're building is going to be 80% of what people take away as the brand. They have to be completely linked in that manner.”"
"“If we're successful, we’ll be enabling many other companies across the world to fulfill their mission and make better decisions for their business. Hopefully, build better products for people because ultimately [that’s] the thing that matters.”"
"I can easily tell if this is the kind of person who goes [and] approaches new opportunities with a growth mindset,” she says. “Are they excited to learn? Are they introspective, and do they take lessons from what’s happened in the past?”"
"Well, if you can go back to the very beginning and change anything about how you went through it, what would you do differently?”"
"“Hey, tell me about a hard situation — something really challenging that you went through in the last year or last two years.”"
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.