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Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Aldous Huxley

categorical imperative that it is with you. You think first of getting the biggest possible output in the shortest possible time. We think first of human beings and their satisfactions. Changing jobs doesn't make for the biggest output in the fewest days. But most people like it better than doing one kind of job all their lives. If it's a choice between mechanical efficiency and human satisfaction, we choose satisfaction. — Aldous Huxley

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

My wife, Rohini, visits a lot of government schools as part of her NGO reach-out. One of the questions she most likes to ask the kids is what they would like to be when they grow up. The answers are varied--'engineer,' 'teacher,' 'policeman' and, increasingly, 'computer' [sic]. But even in the rural schools, one aspiration that they never express is 'farmer — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By J.R. Ward

How ironic. Now that he wasn't with Blay, he was being faithful to the fucker. — J.R. Ward

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will? — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By John Mahoney

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. — John Mahoney

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By David Lynch

Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else. — David Lynch

Nandan Quotes By Ramon Magsaysay

The problem is the policy makers don't have practitioners in the policy team. You won't make an IT policy without consulting a Narayan Murthy or Nandan Nilekani. But for energy, people think they know everything and they know what to do for it. That's how the policies are created in Delhi and that needs to change. — Ramon Magsaysay

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Rob Urbinati

I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition, and what the final product would be like, but luckily I had friends who were good actors, who would help me get them, who would get themselves to the place where a good director should get them to build characters. — Rob Urbinati

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

My background is putting in large systems that change lives ... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

I am not in politics to make more money. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Nandan Nilekani

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit. — Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Quotes By Juan Felipe Herrera

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself. — Juan Felipe Herrera