“Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.”

“a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.”

“I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.”

“In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.”

“Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.”