In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Really do a job and do it well.

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track.

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

I bought some HP sauce the other day. It's costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.