Chanda Kochhar

What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities. ”

We have to address impediments that stall implementation of projects and streamline the process to ensure smooth execution going forward. We need to address the leverage levels among corporates to restart investment cycle. ”

Even if it does not become cashless economy, it will become a less cash economy, and I think that itself is going to be a good and big achievement, and I think we are, as a country, gone through many of large changes, and ICICI has been a leader in many of them. ”

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to. ”

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

I had to work just as hard as my male colleagues. ”

I take all the stress on myself so everyone else can work without stress. ”

I believe in fate, but I also believe that hard work and diligence plays a very important role in our lives. ”

We have to understand that India is a complex country. Everything takes time for the real impact to get translated to the economy. ”

ICICI has been a meritocracy. So, a huge amount a lot of responsibilities, big roles, challenges, have been given to women, not because they are men or women or so on, but they were just given to people who have - who the organization believes has the capability to perform. ”