Adi Godrej

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.