Quotes
So they say
“What’s academics! I failed in my Inter! Parents need to back-off, this parental pressure is getting a bit too much. Failing in academics does not mean failure in life.”
Ronnie Screwvala, head of UTV, Bombay Times, January 20, 2010
“Rajiv loved Parsi food, especially eggs and sweets like Parsi sev and fried bananas.” He also loved ice-cream. “Indira aunty would scold him, telling him to control his sugar intake as there is a history of diabetes in the family.”
Ratoo Dastur, niece of the late Feroze Gandhi,
Rajiv’s father, People, August 14, 2009
“If you look at some of the published statistics, you’ll find that almost 90 percent of the acquisitions don’t work. So acquisition as a growth path is fine, but it has to have a cost which makes sense. People get carried away when they want to acquire something.”
Nusli Wadia, chairman, Bombay Dyeing,
The Economic Times, July 13, 2009
“We are actually moving to a system of manufacturing which is completely different from what it previously was. Earlier, you did not have to bother about whether the product has a software or not, whether it is sustainable or not. Now you have software-embedded products.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chief managing director,Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company, The Times of India, November 2, 2009
“We’ve just completed a study of our carbon footprint: It’s very low. Taking everything into account — transportation, information technology infrastructure, manufacturing — we emit very low quantities of carbon dioxide as a manufacturing company.”
Meher Pudumjee, chairperson, Thermax, Business India, October 18, 2009
“The half-brother of Ratan Naval Tata and son-in-law of Pallonji Mistry, who controls roughly 18 percent stake in Tata Sons, Noel is a quintessential Tata. He is self-effacing, follows a very simple — some would say boring — lifestyle and works very hard (six-and-a-half days a week).”
Rohit Saran, editor, Business Today, November 1, 2009
“I have worn spectacles for short sight most of my life and,
had laser shaving and the cure for short-sight been discovered
during my teens, I may have induced my parents to pay for it.
After all, who wants to go through adolescence being called
‘Ai, chashmish’ or ‘bul-bul?’”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, DNA, June 12, 2009
Ronnie Screwvala, head of UTV, Bombay Times, January 20, 2010
“Rajiv loved Parsi food, especially eggs and sweets like Parsi sev and fried bananas.” He also loved ice-cream. “Indira aunty would scold him, telling him to control his sugar intake as there is a history of diabetes in the family.”
Ratoo Dastur, niece of the late Feroze Gandhi,
Rajiv’s father, People, August 14, 2009
“If you look at some of the published statistics, you’ll find that almost 90 percent of the acquisitions don’t work. So acquisition as a growth path is fine, but it has to have a cost which makes sense. People get carried away when they want to acquire something.”
Nusli Wadia, chairman, Bombay Dyeing,
The Economic Times, July 13, 2009
“We are actually moving to a system of manufacturing which is completely different from what it previously was. Earlier, you did not have to bother about whether the product has a software or not, whether it is sustainable or not. Now you have software-embedded products.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chief managing director,Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company, The Times of India, November 2, 2009
“We’ve just completed a study of our carbon footprint: It’s very low. Taking everything into account — transportation, information technology infrastructure, manufacturing — we emit very low quantities of carbon dioxide as a manufacturing company.”
Meher Pudumjee, chairperson, Thermax, Business India, October 18, 2009
“The half-brother of Ratan Naval Tata and son-in-law of Pallonji Mistry, who controls roughly 18 percent stake in Tata Sons, Noel is a quintessential Tata. He is self-effacing, follows a very simple — some would say boring — lifestyle and works very hard (six-and-a-half days a week).”
Rohit Saran, editor, Business Today, November 1, 2009
“I have worn spectacles for short sight most of my life and,
had laser shaving and the cure for short-sight been discovered
during my teens, I may have induced my parents to pay for it.
After all, who wants to go through adolescence being called
‘Ai, chashmish’ or ‘bul-bul?’”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer, DNA, June 12, 2009
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