Know Your Worth Quotes

“He learned that we should keep our eyes on the goal and not on the ground. He learned so much about the Burger King’s operations that later when he was running the Investment Bank and was looking for high-profile American billionaires to sit on his Board of Directors, he met Joe Antonius, Chairman of the 32-billion-dollar conglomerate. The first thing they had in common was that Antonius ran that corporation where Mir once cleaned bathrooms. He went up to him, introduced himself, “Hi Joe! I am Mir Mohammad Ali Khan, founder and Chairman of KMS Investment Bank and my first job in America was washing bathrooms at one of your restaurants.” Joe burst out laughing and all top notch people – Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and Peter Lynch – could not believe what the young man was saying. Joe took him aside and said, “Tell me honestly what did you like about cleaning bathrooms.” “Ammonia,” replied Mir. “Why?” Mir said, “I hated my job and it hurt my ego. I hated it so much that I cried throughout the first week and every time somebody saw me crying, I would tell them that it was because of ammonia. Ammonia helped me shelter my ego.” Later Antonius joined the Board of Mir’s bank for NO COMPENSATION and also brought 6 top people from Forbes, Yoblon, Mario, Andretti, and others. In the first meeting of the Board Antonius said, “I joined this board because if this immigrant kid can come from a family background that he has, compromise with his ego, wash bathrooms and smile and tell us in a corporate meeting of leaders that he is proud of it, then it means that he will go far in life. At 29 he owns a bank, imagine what he will do at 49.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“The root cause of fear in our practical life is our feeling of uncertainty, insecurity, and doubts.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“Inferiority complex crops up when we feel that we have landed an opportunity by fluke.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“Once a man asked Swami Vivekanand, “what is the reason for every misunderstanding?” Swami Vivekanand replied, “The reason is, we see the people as we are, but not as they are.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“It is easy to criticize just for the sake of it. However, when it comes to adding real value, very few people are capable of that.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“All Birds find shelter during rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“Negativity can never yield anything positive.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“However, such is the state of things that sitting down and thinking actively is no longer considered a productive way to spend your time. We focus too much on action, and not so much on thoughts.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“A matchstick before burning other things burns itself. Our anger is also like a matchstick. Before destroying others, it destroys us.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“The Happy Crow Once upon a time, there lived a crow in a forest. This crow was absolutely satisfied and happy with its life. One day it happened to go to a pond to drink water. It looked at its reflection in the water and turned its face this way and that. It preened its wings and thought about how shiny they were. The crow was convinced of its beauty. But then he saw a white swan swim by. Some ducks standing near the pond laughed at the crow for its black color and complimented and praised the swan. The crow was full of admiration for the swan. He told the swan that it was beautiful and also added, “you must be the happiest bird in the world.” The swan, however, did not appear so happy. When the crow asked her the reason the swan replied, “I also thought that I was the most beautiful and the happiest bird around, until I saw the parrot. You will not believe it. You and I have just one color, but the parrot has two, green and red. In my opinion, the parrot must be the happiest bird in the world.” The crow was intrigued and went to meet the parrot. When he saw the parrot, he too was convinced that it was indeed the most beautiful bird in the forest. When the crow asked the parrot, “you must be the happiest bird in the forest,” the parrot laughed and said, “I too lived under the same illusion, until I saw the peacock. You won’t believe how beautiful the peacock is. I have never seen a more colorful bird.” The inquisitive crow now went to meet the peacock and indeed it was the most colorful bird anyone could imagine. It danced happily with its wings spread and the crow watched mesmerized. However, a bird catcher hiding in the bush too had the same reaction and he captured the colorful peacock. The colorful parrot and the white swan too could not escape this fate. However, the crow with its shiny feathers and lustrous wings escaped this fate. The society’s bias against dark color saved the crow. The peacock, parrot, and swan looked at the crow flying about freely and thought “this must be the happiest bird in the world.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“If you think negative in any situation, you will view everything through the prism of your worry.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“We have two ears and one mouth – for a good reason. It’s more important to listen than it is to talk most of the time.”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing

“The Monk and the Boat A monk decides to meditate alone for some time. From his monastery, he takes a boat and sets sail in it on the lake. When he reaches the middle of the lake, he moors the boat there. He closes his eyes and starts meditating. After a few hours of undisturbed silence, he suddenly feels a bump of another boat colliding into his own. With his eyes still closed, he senses his anger rising, and by the time he opens his eyes, he is ready to scream at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation. But when he opens his eyes, he sees that it was in fact an empty boat that had probably got untethered and floated to the middle of the lake. At that moment the monk achieves self-realization and understands that the anger is actually within him. It really just needs the bump of an external object to provoke it out of him. From then on, whenever he came across someone who irritated him or provoked him and made him angry, he reminded himself, “The other person is merely an empty boat. The anger is within me.” In reality, we all have the anger with us, all the time. All it needs is someone or something like an empty boat to provoke”
― N.K. Sondhi, Know Your Worth : Stop Thinking, Start Doing