My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

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.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

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