NAND KISHORE CHAUDHARY

A leader's job is not to stand at the top of the pyramid. It is to be the foundation beneath everyone else.

Compassionate capitalism is not charity. It is the recognition that human dignity is a competitive advantage — and the most durable one you can build.

My Rs 5,000 loan taught me that you do not need much money to start something meaningful. You need an idea that serves people, and the stubbornness to keep going.

I started Jaipur Rugs to prove that you can build a business with love. Every knot in every rug is an act of love by the person who tied it.

The day you separate business from humanity, you lose both.

When I started, people said I was making a mistake by working with weavers from lower castes. I said I was building a business. Forty years later, the business proved who was right.