Quotes
So they say
“Once the House was in splits after he (Rusi Mehta, Congress corporator) complained that every time the sex-workers in his area were arrested during police raids, they write his name against every category: father, brother and husband.”
-- Kanti Dhulla, former corporator, The Times of India, February 10, 2007
“Nani did (not) ever regret that he did not go abroad for higher studies, for a degree from Oxford or Cambridge. (He) was entirely comfortable with the educational opportunities in India. As he once put it. ‘It is not where you learn but what you learn that makes for success.’”
-- From Nani Palkhivala A Life 2007 by M. V. Kamath
We had a nice kitchen there (at the boarding school in Maryland, USA). My first job was of a dishwasher. So I had access to the kitchen — in boarding school that’s important, because you can break in at night.”
-- Jehangir Lawyer, leading supplier of premium food products, Hindustan Times, February 10, 2007
“Artists are very fragile people. It’s important (to them) that their artistic needs be understood. Our relationship is not just commercial, we’ve become something of a sounding board to them.”
-- Shireen Gandhy, owner of Gallery Che-mould, Hindustan Times, February 3, 2007
“Nearly, 80 percent of all mergers fail and the fault is largely because of an inability to mesh corporate cultures. Today, at Tata Steel, the finance men have to take a backseat; it’s HR that will move to centrestage.”
-- Ashok H. Advani, publisher, Business India, February 25, 2007
“Tata group companies have handled Korean, Malaysian, Chinese, Singaporean, Thai and English cultures so far. One of the most important things of handling people from other cultures is to be sensitive about what they believe in, how they behave and how they react to situations.”
-- B. Muthuraman, managing director, Tata Steel, The Times of India, February 3, 2007
“I chose the Persian god Asho Farohar (for a tattoo on his arm) principally because my mother is Irani (Zoroastrian). Later, I incorporated a couple of other religious symbols like Om, the cross and the crescent with the star. The design signifies religious tolerance and the fact that I don’t follow any particular religion.”
-- Aftab Shivdasani, actor, Mid Day, January 16, 2007
-- Kanti Dhulla, former corporator, The Times of India, February 10, 2007
“Nani did (not) ever regret that he did not go abroad for higher studies, for a degree from Oxford or Cambridge. (He) was entirely comfortable with the educational opportunities in India. As he once put it. ‘It is not where you learn but what you learn that makes for success.’”
-- From Nani Palkhivala A Life 2007 by M. V. Kamath
We had a nice kitchen there (at the boarding school in Maryland, USA). My first job was of a dishwasher. So I had access to the kitchen — in boarding school that’s important, because you can break in at night.”
-- Jehangir Lawyer, leading supplier of premium food products, Hindustan Times, February 10, 2007
“Artists are very fragile people. It’s important (to them) that their artistic needs be understood. Our relationship is not just commercial, we’ve become something of a sounding board to them.”
-- Shireen Gandhy, owner of Gallery Che-mould, Hindustan Times, February 3, 2007
“Nearly, 80 percent of all mergers fail and the fault is largely because of an inability to mesh corporate cultures. Today, at Tata Steel, the finance men have to take a backseat; it’s HR that will move to centrestage.”
-- Ashok H. Advani, publisher, Business India, February 25, 2007
“Tata group companies have handled Korean, Malaysian, Chinese, Singaporean, Thai and English cultures so far. One of the most important things of handling people from other cultures is to be sensitive about what they believe in, how they behave and how they react to situations.”
-- B. Muthuraman, managing director, Tata Steel, The Times of India, February 3, 2007
“I chose the Persian god Asho Farohar (for a tattoo on his arm) principally because my mother is Irani (Zoroastrian). Later, I incorporated a couple of other religious symbols like Om, the cross and the crescent with the star. The design signifies religious tolerance and the fact that I don’t follow any particular religion.”
-- Aftab Shivdasani, actor, Mid Day, January 16, 2007
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