TIOL-DDT 2296 · Tuesday, 18 February 2014 · story 4 of 5

Hard Work and Harvard

SPEAKING in Chennai on 8th February 2014, NarendraModi said, "I have come up from being a chaiwallah and never even seen the doors of Harvard; it is not Harvard but hard work that matters."

In his Budget speech yesterday, the Finance Minister said, "among other mentors, my mother and Harvard taught me the value of hard work."