Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.