Akshay Kumar's Quotes

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

I hate partying. If I'm forced to go to a party or a social gathering, I go in at 9:30 and leave at 10 P.M.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief.

Why bother with Google when I have a wife who knows everything about everything!

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things.

So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.

So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

We will announce a new offering, where you can get a CA expert on your PC live, via video, on a range of topics about a product.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.