Quotes from Subroto Bagchi

Quotes taken from: Address by Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting to the Class of 2006 at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on defining success. July 2nd 2004




It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.

You should leave your newspaper and your toilet, the way you expect to find it

Nonetheless, we learnt that it is important not to measure personal success and sense of well being through material possessions.

It is not about what you create for yourself, it is what you leave behind that defines success.

To me, success is about the sense of independence; it is about not seeing the world but seeing the light.

There is no limit to how concerned you can be for another human being and what is the limit of inclusion you can create.

Success to me is about Vision. It is the ability to rise above the immediacy of pain. It is about imagination. It is about sensitivity to small people. It is about building inclusion. It is about connectedness to a larger world existence. It is about personal tenacity. It is about giving back more to life than you take out of it. It is about creating extra-ordinary success with ordinary lives.

And ..
"Mother had a paralytic stroke and was lying in a government hospital in Bhubaneswar. I flew down from the US where I was serving my second stint, to see her. I spent two weeks with her in the hospital as she remained in a paralytic state. She was neither getting better nor moving on. Eventually I had to return to work. While leaving her behind, I kissed her face. In that paralytic state and a garbled voice, she said, “Why are you kissing me, go kiss the world."