An interesting excerpt from Virender Kapoor's latest book Inspiring India: Taking India from Big to Great.

The key problem with the current generation is that most people don't understand how much is enough to lead a good life! exclaims Virender Kapoor.

Don't look for a volunteering job for money, but as an investment for life, advises management consultant Virender Kapoor.

Reading books will make you curious, build your imagination and nourish your brain into an organic super power.

Unless you know what you are and what you are not, how will you get an appropriate job?

Remember, anyone can make two plus two four. But if you can make two plus two five, you will be adding value, management guru Virender Kapoor advises job-seekers.

By simply being educated and acquiring a degree, you cannot earn money; you need to be skeducated. Skeducation is skill based education. Unfortunately they don't teach you this in the colleges. You got to do it yourself, advises management guru Virender Kapoor.

One Chinaman is three time more productive than an Indian at the workplace through his life, observes Virender Kapoor.

Remember the trees that bend during the storm will survive; the ones that try to defy and stand straight tend to get damaged and uprooted, points out management guru Virender Kapoor.

Children will fall and rise again; that is what life is all about, says Virender Kapoor.

He has seen both glorious success and abject failure. Who better to take career lessons from than Amitabh Bachchan who turns 75 today?

'Is standing in a queue any bigger sacrifice than that of a soldier's family?'

In his latest book Speaking the Modi Way, author Virender Kapoor suggests how you can speak, persuade and motivate like Narendra Modi.