Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

What you do is proof of what you believe.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.

Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.

Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

You have to be careful what you think you know.

Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.

The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.

I need a combination of attitude, sensuality, and vulnerability. I need a new kind of heroine. After Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone, India now needs an even more unique fantasy figure.

If you are not willing to be a lone wolf, keep your truth to yourself. If you want acceptance and your truths to be spoken, it is a slippery slope.

I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a matter of shame for the family. We don't share our pain or frailties; we cover our weaknesses, and it becomes a cancer.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

The constant craze of size zero and crash diets is not very good.

My censor board is my own heart and mind. Our audience can say that the women in my films are bold or sensual, but never, ever vulgar.

My gaze is very different from that of Ekta Kapoor's, and that is quite visible in those two films - 'Ragini MMS 2' and 'Jism 2.'

I don't only cater a film to the male audience but also the female audience.

Now, with a click of a button, one has access to amazing content across a wide plethora to choose from; hence, traditional filmmakers will have to evolve in order to cater to the palate of the newly empowered end consumer or perish.

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

Truth doesn't need a PR. If you believe it, go out there and speak it. Do not expect anyone to hold your hands and support you.

My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.

I could not be arm candy to a hero.

I am addicted to watching cookery shows.

Ninety per cent of the crew that work with me are there since my childhood and which is why I do not want to work too much outside - because the people I work with are as important for me as my role.

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

What supermarkets did to small neighbourhood shops is what digital platforms will do to cinema.

We have German Shepherds, gifted by a friend, and the rest are street dogs we have adopted.

Most filmmakers looked at it as a medium to palm off sub-standard stuff. I don't look at it like that. Your TV screen, mobile screen is as relevant as a cinema hall.

I did 'Daddy' when I was 17 years old. My father, Mahesh Bhatt, directed the movie, and he cast me.

I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.

It is important to change, acknowledge, and accept our mistakes. It's important that we - this goes even for me - introspect and see the wrongs we have done. It's time we all grew up.

If you don't have a basic spend on marketing, there is no point releasing the film in theatres.

People forget that I am the granddaughter of a person named Nanabhai Bhatt, who had made more than 150 odd films. He was the person to introduce the double role phenomenon in Indian movies.