Quotes
So they say
“India is the largest entertainment consuming country in the world.
So one would think we have a significant share of the media and entertainment pie globally. But not so! We barely make one percent of the worldwide revenues.”
Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications Ltd,
Bombay Times, October 9, 2009
“I play an old man and I think the role came to me because it demanded a man of my age to play the lead. But I thank audiences and their maturity towards cinema now for making such films happen in Bollywood. The scope for creativity is huge now and I couldn’t have got this film (Fruit and Nut) five years ago as films like these wouldn’t have been made in a big way.”
Boman Irani, actor, DNA, October 10, 2009
“We’(ve) been building a liquidity cushion and buffers long before the crisis. I think the best time to raise capital is when you don’t need it immediately but have a long-term deployment strategy in place. That gives you the leeway to get the best out of negotiations with the providers of capital, because you’re not under duress.”
Koushik Chatterjee, chief financial officer, Tata Steel,
DNA, October 5, 2009
“Right from the artist’s studio to the gallery space to the buyer’s house, we don’t have the kind of open space for life-size sculptures. Also, throughout history, sculptors were always considered artisans and not artists, maybe that concept is still stuck in people’s minds.”
Arzan Khambatta, sculptor, Bombay Times, October 7, 2009
“One day, while driving, an Italian gentleman collided into my grandfather’s car. As a gesture of apology, the Italian, who had a factory making Italian marble in the city, laid the flooring of our then unfinished home, thus marking the beginning of a long friendship that followed!”
Shireen Gandhy, gallery owner, DNA, October 4, 2009
“‘In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so
my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish, but the exact recipe is a closely guarded family secret.”
Boman Kohinoor, owner, Britannia Restaurant,
FEZANA Journal, Summer 2009
“The night after a dialysis session is painful and restless.
It’s not just the physical pain but also the mental trauma that breaks a person down slowly.”
Nozer Canteenwalla, suffering from polycystic kidney disease,
The Times of India, September 2, 2009
“What people do not realize is that if an animal remains hungry,
it tends to get angry. It’s better to feed a hungry dog
rather than having an angry dog around you.”
Thrity Gazdar, Byculla resident, Hindustan Times, September 27, 2009
“(In India) aviation contributes less than 1.6 percent of total
green-house gases... so why don’t people go and talk to businesses
or the industries that contribute more than 1.6 percent and come talk to us after they’ve spoken to the rest. The time for India is now. The time for developing businesses in India is now.”
Jeh Wadia, Go Airways chief, Mumbai Mirror, September 25, 2009
“If the city (Bombay) can continue to attract the kind of people who are always aspiring for a better life, it can capture their energy and ingenuity for its own benefit.”
Tanya Dubash, executive director and president, marketing,
Godrej Group, DNA, July 27, 2009
“Nine high courts struck down Emergency laws and freed
all the detainees. It’s only the Supreme Court that shut
out the lamps of liberty.”
Fali Nariman, eminent jurist, The Indian Express, September 21, 2009
“We have always grown because of innovation. Out of the total of 1,500 employees, 180 are in R&D. But now, we have reached a
good scale. We have brought it to a level where good business people can easily make it grow 15-20 percent every year.”
Keki Gharda, chairman, Gharda Chemicals, DNA Money, July 27, 2009
“The role of the Britannia Nutrition Foundation is to increase the level of understanding and competency of the many dimensions of nutrition. It is a significant step in our aspiration to provide wholesome and healthy products, and more importantly to focus all round attention on the issue of nutrition, which is a social issue needing urgent attention in our country.”
Vinita Bali, MD and CEO of the Nusli Wadia-promoted Rs 3,143-crore Britannia company, The Economic Times, October 20, 2009
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day
you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell, chairman (retd) US Joint Chiefs of Staff, quoted in What’s On, Karachi Zarthusti Banu Mandal newsletter, October 2009
“Government’s view of the economy can be summed up in few short phrases: if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ex US president Ronald Reagan quoted by Karan Thapar,
Hindustan Times, September 27, 2009
So one would think we have a significant share of the media and entertainment pie globally. But not so! We barely make one percent of the worldwide revenues.”
Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications Ltd,
Bombay Times, October 9, 2009
“I play an old man and I think the role came to me because it demanded a man of my age to play the lead. But I thank audiences and their maturity towards cinema now for making such films happen in Bollywood. The scope for creativity is huge now and I couldn’t have got this film (Fruit and Nut) five years ago as films like these wouldn’t have been made in a big way.”
Boman Irani, actor, DNA, October 10, 2009
“We’(ve) been building a liquidity cushion and buffers long before the crisis. I think the best time to raise capital is when you don’t need it immediately but have a long-term deployment strategy in place. That gives you the leeway to get the best out of negotiations with the providers of capital, because you’re not under duress.”
Koushik Chatterjee, chief financial officer, Tata Steel,
DNA, October 5, 2009
“Right from the artist’s studio to the gallery space to the buyer’s house, we don’t have the kind of open space for life-size sculptures. Also, throughout history, sculptors were always considered artisans and not artists, maybe that concept is still stuck in people’s minds.”
Arzan Khambatta, sculptor, Bombay Times, October 7, 2009
“One day, while driving, an Italian gentleman collided into my grandfather’s car. As a gesture of apology, the Italian, who had a factory making Italian marble in the city, laid the flooring of our then unfinished home, thus marking the beginning of a long friendship that followed!”
Shireen Gandhy, gallery owner, DNA, October 4, 2009
“‘In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so
my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish, but the exact recipe is a closely guarded family secret.”
Boman Kohinoor, owner, Britannia Restaurant,
FEZANA Journal, Summer 2009
“The night after a dialysis session is painful and restless.
It’s not just the physical pain but also the mental trauma that breaks a person down slowly.”
Nozer Canteenwalla, suffering from polycystic kidney disease,
The Times of India, September 2, 2009
“What people do not realize is that if an animal remains hungry,
it tends to get angry. It’s better to feed a hungry dog
rather than having an angry dog around you.”
Thrity Gazdar, Byculla resident, Hindustan Times, September 27, 2009
“(In India) aviation contributes less than 1.6 percent of total
green-house gases... so why don’t people go and talk to businesses
or the industries that contribute more than 1.6 percent and come talk to us after they’ve spoken to the rest. The time for India is now. The time for developing businesses in India is now.”
Jeh Wadia, Go Airways chief, Mumbai Mirror, September 25, 2009
“If the city (Bombay) can continue to attract the kind of people who are always aspiring for a better life, it can capture their energy and ingenuity for its own benefit.”
Tanya Dubash, executive director and president, marketing,
Godrej Group, DNA, July 27, 2009
“Nine high courts struck down Emergency laws and freed
all the detainees. It’s only the Supreme Court that shut
out the lamps of liberty.”
Fali Nariman, eminent jurist, The Indian Express, September 21, 2009
“We have always grown because of innovation. Out of the total of 1,500 employees, 180 are in R&D. But now, we have reached a
good scale. We have brought it to a level where good business people can easily make it grow 15-20 percent every year.”
Keki Gharda, chairman, Gharda Chemicals, DNA Money, July 27, 2009
“The role of the Britannia Nutrition Foundation is to increase the level of understanding and competency of the many dimensions of nutrition. It is a significant step in our aspiration to provide wholesome and healthy products, and more importantly to focus all round attention on the issue of nutrition, which is a social issue needing urgent attention in our country.”
Vinita Bali, MD and CEO of the Nusli Wadia-promoted Rs 3,143-crore Britannia company, The Economic Times, October 20, 2009
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day
you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell, chairman (retd) US Joint Chiefs of Staff, quoted in What’s On, Karachi Zarthusti Banu Mandal newsletter, October 2009
“Government’s view of the economy can be summed up in few short phrases: if it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; and if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Ex US president Ronald Reagan quoted by Karan Thapar,
Hindustan Times, September 27, 2009
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