Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.
I am a little extrovert.
In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.
When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.
Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.
If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.
Fear is all the fear of some loss: "I'm going to lose something. " If we declare, and if we know in our hearts, "I already have everything that I need: I have life, I have creativity, I have joy, I have nourishment. I have everything I need," and if we just say, "It doesn't depend on my having a physical body to do it," then everything opens up.
It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.