155 Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

We need to start work with the idea that we're going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.

Don't give up on something just because you think you can't do it.

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is the investments. Because we need a lot of investment in the country.