'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

What we will become depends on us

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

But race is not biology

If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.