"Now things have changed - many Indians educated and working in America are returning to India because India has changed. India is the new land of opportunities."

- Peter Loescher
President and Chief Executive
Siemens

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

- Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

"As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that."

-AzimPremji

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

- Indira Gandhi

From the Film American Desi

Eric: I'm hungry. Did your mom give you some of her spicy balls?

Krishna: Don't ever say "spicy balls" and "your mom" in the same sentence

"In the material world, one who is unaffected by whatever good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge."

- Bhagavad Gita

"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west....keeping the world in chains. If India took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times".
  - Mukesh Ambani

"They let greed and a desire to show off to the world come before family. They have broken my heart and left me with no choice but to disown them."
- Vinod Nayar after his son Arun's multi-million dollar wedding to actress Liz Hurley.

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
- Mother Teresa

"God has no religion"
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve."
- Lakshmi Mittal

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become."
- Buddha

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy."
- Bill Gates

"Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes."
- Swami Vivekananda

"Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little."
- Buddha

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India"
- Max Mueller

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India".
- Romain Rolland (French scholar)

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"
-Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."
- Will Durant

" Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. That is the way great spiritual giants are produced. "
 - Swami Vivekananda

“Be the change you want to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it"
-Mahatma Gandhi

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"
-Mark Twain

"Deep Dasgupta is as confused as a child is in a topless bar!"
-Navjot Singh (the Indian Cricketeer)

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"
-Albert Einstein