Shiv Nadar

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

— Shiv Nadar

It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess…

— Shiv Nadar

The Bharat Ram family was into philanthropy a way earlier. They build institutes such as Shri Ram College of Commerce, Lady Shri…

— Shiv Nadar

The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in;…

— Shiv Nadar

I firmly believe that philanthropy is most effective and outcome-oriented when you ensure that your pledge actually gets spent.

— Shiv Nadar

I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and…

— Shiv Nadar

When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is…

— Shiv Nadar

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way…

— Shiv Nadar

I was with top CEOs in 2009, and they were clearly shaken. Top leaders of Wall Street and elsewhere, shaken. The ones…

— Shiv Nadar

Globally, as work is re-distributed to various countries, infrastructure will have to be managed remotely.

— Shiv Nadar

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the…

— Shiv Nadar

At what age did Warren Buffett come into philanthropy? At 76. He gave a very good reason. He said his wife was…

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

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

— Shiv Nadar

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

— Shiv Nadar

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

— Shiv Nadar