Quotes from Arundhati Bhattacharya

I have met a lot of women who are good at math.

Things have their own pace, and if we work with that pace and anticipate the issues correctly, we can have good results.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.

You can't merge six banks and think that nothing will happen.

Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.

Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

If you look at the international markets, for projects that are capital-intensive, the minute the construction phase is completed and production is supposed to start, normally all these loans get refinanced.

Some people look at my photos and think maybe I'm feeling frazzled, but I really want to tell them I'm just having a bad hair day!

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.

Had it not been for the groundswell of support by the people of India, we would not have seen such a huge exercise of demonetisation bounce off without a single riot or a single law and order issue.

Why should a country have to take on itself a huge burden of managing a totally cash economy?

The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.

One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem. When you actively plunge into it, you realize you can easily do it.

If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

Brexit is actually a step back in the sense that you are going back from being connected to being on your own.

It was my first day at work - and beginning my training on the job, I was given the job of writing cheques and entering their details. The branch was surrounded by hordes of people... soon, they had to close the gates to manage the crowds, and they started pushing in.

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.

When borrowers anticipate that politicians might cancel their loans, they stop paying.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.

If you have six corporate centres, six treasuries, six of everything, and then if you bring it down to one of everything, obviously there are some savings.