The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.