We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
The West is not producing enough engineers.
Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.
The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.
The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
