Nandan Nilekani Quotes

Indian - Politician | June 2, 1955 -

Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

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Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

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My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

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My transactions are above board: I do not have money deposited in other accounts and have transparently declared all assets. My real wealth is, however, my experience as cofounder of Infosys and as Aadhar Chairman, which gave away 60,000 crore identity cards to people of India as promised.

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When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

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Indian higher education is completely regulated. It's very difficult to start a private university. It's very difficult for a foreign university to come to India. As a result of that, our higher education is simply not keeping pace with India's demands. That is leading to a lot of problems which we need to address.

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My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.

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Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

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