Hu Shih Quotes

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.

Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

I am going to take one day a month to visit non-technology companies to learn and get inspiration from other industries and organizations.

When you do business, you have to depend on other countries. This is the global economy.

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

There is inherent value in sharing a billion people are doing it.

Facebook is a CRM for people. The days of the anonymous web is over. People expect more.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Your customer is not your user

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

Do not think of all your anxieties you will only make yourself ill.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.