Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

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

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

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.