Leading Light
Shanti Mantra
asato mā sadgamaya;
tamasomā jyotir gamaya;
mrityormāamritam gamaya;
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantih!
From ignorance to knowledge;
From darkness to light;
From death to immortality;
Om peace, peace, peace!
Do not be afraid
Role Model
I draw inspiration from one of Singapore's founding fathers, Dr Goh Keng Swee. He was the original economic architect of Singapore, and founded many institutions in Singapore, such as the Economic Development Board, the Singapore Zoological Gardens and the Jurong Bird Park. He cajoles us in this quotation not to indulge in analysis paralysis.
:: WHO DARES WINS ::
My innovation philosophy is therefore to:
Think Big;
Test Small;
Fail Fast;
Learn Quickly;
Repeat and Accelerate.
Do or do not, there is no try
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Excerpt from speech by Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic, 1910