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“I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless.”

“In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world.”

“Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.”

“No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.”

Source : Larry Merchant (1973). “The national football lottery”

“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”

“And that Aha! that you get when you see an artwork that really hits you is, 'I am that.' I am the very radiance of energy that is talking to me through this painting.”

“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.”

“We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.”

Source : "ICICI’s Chanda Kochhar: ‘Whenever There’s a Challenge, I See an Opportunity’". Interview with Michael Useem, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. February 6, 2008.