Chanda Kochhar Quotes

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

In the organization of any major sporting event or the planning of a building, long-term thinking is key.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

I adjust my priorities according to the most important project I'm involved in at the time.

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

I do a project, and then I move on.

The thing you have to understand is that there are only so many things you can do in a year. There are only so many days in a year. There is only so much time you can set aside for certain projects.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

I find I have less time for everything. The assembly elections came so soon, and there is still so much work to be done.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.