Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.