As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

Impatience is a virtue.

I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.