When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

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.

We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Reconciliation means - in victory, I win and you're wrong, and then you lose.

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

When you love what you do, you can work all the time.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.