I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; the business landscape is diverse for each business. It makes it challenging, as well as exciting.

I never belonged to you. I was never yours. We were never us. You confused an excellent friendship for something more than it was, and I92m sorry.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

Sometimes you have got to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they use to be.

Through every right and every wrong thing I92ve done, the wrong ones are the most fun doing.

Don't let someone who is no longer in your life continue to run your life.

Don't play with someone's feelings just because you're unsure of your own.

I don92t know why I get so protective and jealous over you when you92re not even mine.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation, wrong priorities and unattainable targets

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and condi