Quotes by Shaffi Mather - Page 1

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.
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Profit
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I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.
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Catering
Hard Way
Way
Learnt
Positioning
Segments
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The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.
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Ambulance
Equipment
Doctor
Calls
Require
Requires
Ward
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Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.
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Care
Health Care
Health Care System
India
Way
Health Care Way
Observed
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The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.
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Exposed
Fellowship
Youngsters
Almost All
Failure Fear Me
Wild
Pursuing
Ted
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The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.
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Fighting
Principles
Rights
Stronger
Push
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In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
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Men
Battle
Bribe
Common
Common Man
Giving
Modern Day
Premium
Subsistence
Tough
Life Time Where
Life Time Man
Simply
Gives
Pays
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There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.
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Ambulance
Healthcare
Institute
Myth
Stigma
Attached
Carrying
Graduating
Patients
Services
Transporting
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I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enough people to pay a reasonable fee in rural India.
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Perception
Reasonable
Urban
Enough People
Fee
Rural
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