We need to learn how to become a digital enterprise, but we understand that we're a company made up of 2.2 million associates, and that human interaction in the future will matter.

I'm the non-executive chairman of nine or so major companies, and on the nine companies, it's a little trying because you jump from one industry to another, as the case might be. But one had the reasonable knowledge of those nine activities, and it's been an exciting job.

In any business, the time to engage in philanthropy is when you are at your best.

I have always looked at business as an opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

Business need not be a merciless, cutthroat affair.

I will certainly not sell my stake in Tata Motors and Tata Steel, and never have, no matter how much I was criticised.