Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for FACULTY with almost no one LEAVING it for ANOTHER INSTITUTION, which is why the decision of granting tenure is a life long commitment.

Tenure in any DEPARTMENT is SERIOUS business, because it means, essentially, employment for LIFE.

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I GOT turned on to charter schools. It's a BUSINESS model. Every employee and every TEACHER will be monitored by PERFORMANCE.

China NEVER BORROWED less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most SIGNIFICANT client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.

I have WORKED with NT Rama Rao, Chandra BABU and with Mulayam Singh Yadav too, and with SP PARTICULARLY I had BITTER EXPERIENCES in my 10-year tenure at Rampur.

With my first few BOOKS, I was AIMING at an academic AUDIENCE, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain AMOUNT of knowledge; you can expect that there is this COMMON background.

I STARTED in the RESTAURANT INDUSTRY when I was 22, so I've had QUITE a LONG tenure, if you will.