Quotes
So they say
"Winston Churchill once described life as 'one damn thing after another...' This became true for ZAV in the last few months.
We convened an AGM, but no quorum. Next we convened an EGM. This time there was a quorum, but why did we call it an EGM? So finally we have to reconvene the AGM. With steely determination this committee marches on."
-- Perviz Dubash, president, Rathaeshtar, the newsletter of the Zoroastrian Association of Victoria, Australia, March 2006
"While I love men, I find them useless when it comes to hard work. From an employee base of two, I now have over 25 ladies on my team."
-- Behroze Singh, proprietor, Cottons, Economic Times, March 4, 2006
"We aim to be the lowest-cost airline in India by providing customers a comfortable and reasonable option to different destinations across India. Our primary aim is to give our customers a cheap option. We do not offer any food items because that beats the purpose of being called a low-cost airline. If the customer wants food, he can buy it."
-- Jeh Wadia, managing director, GoAir, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, March 8, 2006
An agnostic in his hey days, (Adi Godrej) has become a believer in his grey days! "With age, people usually tend to become religious. Of course, my wife, a Sikhni, has always been religious. But none of us believe in rituals. Among our children, Tanya is more religious.'"
-- Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group quoted by Sudeshna Chatterjee, The Sunday Times of India, March 12, 2006
"Hindus believe in free entry and exit. Anybody can set himself up as a religious teacher. The incumbent gurus do not have any monopoly rights. The new entrant is free to put forth new ideas or new variants of old ideas.
Customers have choice. The old guard has no privileges. All ideas and their purveyors are judged by the standards of a free uncensored information market-place. The Hindu ideas-bazaar is even gender-neutral. God-women have the same market access and opportunities for market acceptance. Market capitalism is first and foremost about the absence of entry barriers, and
this is the very basis of Hinduism as we know it."
-- Ram Rao, quoted by his brother Jaithirth Rao, The Indian Express
"The earliest recorded fire altar was in the open air, surrounded by nature. The fire temple evolved from a pre-Achaemenian fire altar near the capital complex of Persepolis through the Parthian and Sasanian Empires into the chahar-taq, a square building capped by a dome."
-- Magdalena Rustomji, Hamazor - Issue 4, 2005
We convened an AGM, but no quorum. Next we convened an EGM. This time there was a quorum, but why did we call it an EGM? So finally we have to reconvene the AGM. With steely determination this committee marches on."
-- Perviz Dubash, president, Rathaeshtar, the newsletter of the Zoroastrian Association of Victoria, Australia, March 2006
"While I love men, I find them useless when it comes to hard work. From an employee base of two, I now have over 25 ladies on my team."
-- Behroze Singh, proprietor, Cottons, Economic Times, March 4, 2006
"We aim to be the lowest-cost airline in India by providing customers a comfortable and reasonable option to different destinations across India. Our primary aim is to give our customers a cheap option. We do not offer any food items because that beats the purpose of being called a low-cost airline. If the customer wants food, he can buy it."
-- Jeh Wadia, managing director, GoAir, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, March 8, 2006
An agnostic in his hey days, (Adi Godrej) has become a believer in his grey days! "With age, people usually tend to become religious. Of course, my wife, a Sikhni, has always been religious. But none of us believe in rituals. Among our children, Tanya is more religious.'"
-- Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group quoted by Sudeshna Chatterjee, The Sunday Times of India, March 12, 2006
"Hindus believe in free entry and exit. Anybody can set himself up as a religious teacher. The incumbent gurus do not have any monopoly rights. The new entrant is free to put forth new ideas or new variants of old ideas.
Customers have choice. The old guard has no privileges. All ideas and their purveyors are judged by the standards of a free uncensored information market-place. The Hindu ideas-bazaar is even gender-neutral. God-women have the same market access and opportunities for market acceptance. Market capitalism is first and foremost about the absence of entry barriers, and
this is the very basis of Hinduism as we know it."
-- Ram Rao, quoted by his brother Jaithirth Rao, The Indian Express
"The earliest recorded fire altar was in the open air, surrounded by nature. The fire temple evolved from a pre-Achaemenian fire altar near the capital complex of Persepolis through the Parthian and Sasanian Empires into the chahar-taq, a square building capped by a dome."
-- Magdalena Rustomji, Hamazor - Issue 4, 2005
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