એકના આંક વગર સો મીડાં ખોટાં.

ēkanā āṁka vagara sō mīḍāṁ khōṭāṁ.

Literally: Without the digit one, a hundred zeros are useless.
What it means: Without a leader or a core value, all other efforts or resources are meaningless.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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