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" HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers. "

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" Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s. "

" If you get to think of sharing wealth with people who need it and the purposes that need it, it gives a very different sense of satisfaction. I think I can build an institution which is very unlike the Gates' foundation. Gates' foundation is totally project-driven, that will serve a specific purpose and then self-destruct. "

" In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time. "

" On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1,000 movies during college. "

" The anti-Hindi agitation changed the entire face of Tamil Nadu with a local party emerging on the top, relegating the Congress. "

" When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together. "

" If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam. "

" Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain from HCL-HP then - I was OK to do it alone. My brother, who was supposed to head it, passed away. We had a governing council to run it. That was a leap of faith, and we didn't know where we will get. "

" My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance. "

" I never second-judged my mother. "

" The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision. You will have the confidence to take risks because you have time by your side. You can bring innovation into everything you do and constantly reinvent yourself. "

" Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S. "

" After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way. "

" I admire companies that give back to communities. It is an absolute essential for organizations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. But this is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition. "

" In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at. "

" One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students. "

" I have talked about the 'fractal organization'. Those smaller pieces should innovate and lead the rest of the organization. There will be parts that will be thinking about technologies of the future, and you need to nourish them. "

" I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through. "

" The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not - something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves - stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility - that was the biggest barrier we had to break. "

" My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in. "

" If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on. "

" Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years. "

" The FM proposed to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund to ensure better flow of funds to students. "

" Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses. "

" The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for. "

" The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start. "

" There is a disconnect in education and work. And corporates don't do a great job of skilling. In future, corporates and educational institutions will work closely. "

" My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism. "

" My daughter is very happy doing philanthropy, especially in the schools. "

" Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it. "