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I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.
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I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
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There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.
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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.
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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.
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This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.
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You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
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I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
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We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
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I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
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Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
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You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.
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Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.
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I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.
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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
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Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
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When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
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There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
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People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
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