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“Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.”
“In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.”
“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 think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.”
“If my company spends money, it should be disclosed to the shareholders and how it was spent. With my personal money, I can do anything I want. But company money should be disclosed.”
“Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.”
“I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.”
“The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.”
“When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.”
“If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.”
“I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.”
“My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.”
“Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.”
“Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.”
“I am a man in a hurry.”
“A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.”
“A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.”
“Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.”
“The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.”
“We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.”