If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.