People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.

It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

The sense of anger I had when I was younger is something I thought would never go away. Over time, it's something you get almost bored with.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

If you want me to swim fast, you have to let me enjoy my life.

You try and remember, but it never works.