I am completely Socratic.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Being an entrepreneur is not about the money, its about the freedom.

To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

Tropical rainforests [are] the only place you can go nowadays and not get ‘friended.’

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.