N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.

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.

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

India needs to sustain its high growth rate.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

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 am a man in a hurry.

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

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.

I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

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 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.

I have always focused on the bottom line.

Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.