"Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty."

"I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel."

"A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is."

"But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time."

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them."

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."