My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.