Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.

Be a leader, not a superior.

Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing

Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

The man who doesn't howl at the moon when his mother dies is no man at all.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

All I can do now is cover the mirrors.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?