Sharad Vivek Sagar

"All I want to be is a wandering entrepreneur touching billions of lives. I am going to be the monk who never bought a Ferrari."

"This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don't take an equity or a salary despite knowing that you and your investors will make money, and loads of it, eventually. I help because I care. Please remember, to pay back. Not to me, but to the world. Preferably, donate to a non-profit which will never receive the investments that you can and you are; donate to children and youth who want to do good things, to families that need you, to social startups that sweat day in and day out to bring smiles, and to anyone who cares for PEOPLE more than PROFITS. My salary will be drawn. I will be paid back in full. Thank you!"

"I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country."

"If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war."

"I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees."

"The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore."

"Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything."

"People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight."

"This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car."

"The kinds of people we meet in our life have a huge impact on the kind of person we become."

"For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges."

"We got up at 6am to go to school for a few years and we found it so challenging. Some people in our country have woken up at 6am every single morning for decades now so that this nation can wake up and see great mornings. I salute all those wonderful super humans who are inspiring a better tomorrow. Thank you, Teachers!"

"What hurts me is the fact that in India, a good doctor is one whom you have to take an appointment with even before you fall sick. Else, you will die but not get treated. A good school is one that won't admit you even if you are in Lower Kindergarten. A good minister is one won't meet you till are some VIP. I want to change this in my lifetime by democratizing education and opportunities."

"When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions."

"Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself."

"The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself."

"Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves."

"The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right."

"Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education."

"An "eye" on the vision is more important than an "I" on the vision."