''Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'' is a 2008 book by the Indian non-fiction author

Rashmi Bansal Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur. As of 2019, she is the author of nine books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, '' Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'', traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 cop ...

. ''Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'' created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over 300,000 copies and has been translated into eight languages. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" is a famous quote of

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business magnate

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, which he originally took from last page of the ''

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'' published in October 1974. It features the stories of 25

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s from

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who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough road of entrepreneurship. It is an

CIIE (Centre for Innovation, Incubation and

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) publication. Bansal is the author of a number of other books on entrepreneurship: ''Connect the Dots'', ''I Have a Dream'', ''Poor Little Rich Slum'', ''Follow Every Rainbow'', and ''Take me Home, Arise Awake,'' and ''God's Own Kitchen''.

About the title

In 2005, during his famous commencement speech at Stanford University,

quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the 1974 edition of the ''Whole Earth Catalog'': "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

References

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