“We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.” YearsHas BeensDifferentWholeInterestForgetGrowing UpGrowingAmbitionIndiaConnectedSelfishEmpiresMidstNationalityProvincesSelfish Interest Author:Chittaranjan Das
“My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.” HumansHuman NatureSourceAmbitionIndiaProfoundPlanesMy Ambition Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
“I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.” ThinkingNeedsShouldBelieveMayImportantCountryReasonPlayBigsTodayAbleMovingRolesSkillsAmbitionAreasDirectShould HaveIndiaManagementInvestmentChineseReason WhyLeagueNeighborhoodNo ReasonInitiativeOther CountriesInfrastructureThink BigManagement Skills Author:Manmohan Singh
“The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. This is a legitimate ambition for China. This is a legitimate ambition for India. And the challenge for the humanity is to evolve a world system in which the legitimate ambitions of both our countries can find constructive expression without threatening anybody else.” IdeasCountryHumanityChallengesExpressionAmbitionMajorsIndiaChinaOur CountryEvolveThreateningConstructiveEmergence Author:Manmohan Singh
“India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.” PeopleTryingDemocracyHugeTaxesAmbitionIndiaIndianLiftsMinistersHopefulPrimePrime MinisterInfrastructureMomentum Author:Jamie Dimon
“As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a student of economics honour. But during my college days, I began to get offers for modelling.” ChildrenIdeasEndsRunningFilmCareersChangedStudentsCollegeIndustryOffersAmbitionEconomicsIndiaArmyInvestmentNo IdeaHonourGrandfatherBankingNavyMy GrandfatherMerchantsMy AmbitionFilm IndustryModellingInvestment BankingJoining The ArmyCollege Days Author:Arjun Rampal
“India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.” PeopleNeedsHumansRealSpiritualPoliticalDesireFoundImaginationEconomicCreationAmbitionIndiaWesternCorruptionBackgroundsMysteriousRecognitionAspirationStayingEntityIntrigueExoticHuman NeedsIncessantlyMeddlingMolding Author:Thrity Umrigar
“It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".” SelfHardDreamEyeFatherBeliefGoalModernHard WorkAmbitionCommitmentCapacityIndiaWideEnterpriseInitiativeScratchesUndertakingsBeliveBelief In SelfEyes Wide Open Author:Anil Ambani
“Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.” DreamEffortGreaterHigherAmbitionCommitmentIndiaBiggerDeeperOur DreamsReliance Author:Dhirubhai Ambani
“On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.” ChildrenAmbitionDecidedIndiaCyclesAvoidingAmusementCunningEldersBicycleMy AmbitionProvokedAtlas Author:Dervla Murphy