There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

There are good examples of companies – Coca-Cola is one – that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion – everything.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Study men, not historians.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.