Nandan Nilekani famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Notebook #Four #World
Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Ideas #Action #Ideology
My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Honesty #Life Changing #Kind
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#People #Entrepreneur #Independence
I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Facts #Proud #Wealth
I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Thinking #India #Levers
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Hard Work #Mps #Passionate
Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
-- Nandan Nilekani

#Home #Congress #Ideological

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."
The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Nandan Nilekani famous quotes

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