N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Whether you are talking about cardiac care or education, the fundamental question is: How do you provide it for everyone?

Health and education are always issues.

I’m a big fan of the free market system but the free market system works [only] when you have robust competition.

We must work towards solutions that make housing, transportation, the workforce, and higher education more equitable.

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

All children should have equal opportunities.

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself.

The so-called anti-trust laws were intended to prevent the creation of monopolies and to forbid unreasonable profits to those monopolies

… a social right

The only way you can stop the unregulated monopoly ... from gouging ... is to introduce competition.

Give instruction unto those who cannot procure it for themselves.

… the great equalizer.

The prisons are open all day long. I think the schools should be too.

I have watched as the Government stepped up the process of dismantling the State, throwing thousands of people onto the scrapheap, abolishing job creation and training programs.... I watched them maniacally cutting back programs ranging from industry R&D to family planning to dental hospital services for the poor. I watched this Government create a crisis of confidence in the higher education sector and attack our public school system.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

Higher education cannot be a luxury.