Quotes
So they say
“You know why politicians take such long pauses between lines? That’s because they’re waiting for the echo of the loudspeakers and the noise of the applause to die down before moving on. Of course, I couldn’t afford to take these long breaks because then the film would have run into four hours.”
Arjun Rampal, actor, married to a Parsi, on his film Raajneeti, Hindustan Times, June 23, 2010
“I love my heritage bungalow and would never consider redevelopment. But when I have to shell out six to seven lakhs annually,
and Rs 25 lakhs for major repairs at times, it pinches.”
Adil Gandhy of Chemould, DNA, February 28, 2010
“Forty percent of new family-run businesses die within the first five years, 66 percent of the remainder die or leave the control of the founding family during the first generation, and only 17 percent of the remainder make it into the third generation of the founding family. If one does the math, these figures assert that 3.57 percent firms make it to the third generation.”
Dr Gita Piramal, business historian, quoting from a study by Switzerland-based business school IMD, Business Today, March 7, 2010
“In my 22 years of working with street children, I still haven’t encountered a street child who was maimed for begging.”
Dinaz Stafford, filmmaker and trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust,
The Times of India, February 24, 2009
“The Taj cannot merely be a chain the global traveller experiences in India; rather we have to be available in our main markets. We are an Indian company with global scale. Today, you have to be a corporate samurai, like Lenovo, to survive. It’s a new form of world trade, and anyone who doesn’t fit into this mindset is asking to be fossilized.”
R. K. Krishna Kumar, vice chairman, Taj group, Business India,
April 5, 2009
“At one point one of the smugglers had chosen to stifle
the weeping little girl by putting her inside a washing machine just to shut her up and prevent them from being discovered.”
Shahin Bekhradnia writing about Zoroastrian refugees fleeing Iran,
Hamazor - Issue 1, 2009
“The first Zoroastrian who visited Japan, as far as records show, was Jamsetji N. Tata, in 1892.”
Takeshi Aoki, lecturer, Hamazor - Issue 1, 2009
“To speak good of the evil dead is to speak evil of the living good.”
Late A. D. Gorwala, editor of Opinion, quoted in Freedom First,
March 2010
Arjun Rampal, actor, married to a Parsi, on his film Raajneeti, Hindustan Times, June 23, 2010
“I love my heritage bungalow and would never consider redevelopment. But when I have to shell out six to seven lakhs annually,
and Rs 25 lakhs for major repairs at times, it pinches.”
Adil Gandhy of Chemould, DNA, February 28, 2010
“Forty percent of new family-run businesses die within the first five years, 66 percent of the remainder die or leave the control of the founding family during the first generation, and only 17 percent of the remainder make it into the third generation of the founding family. If one does the math, these figures assert that 3.57 percent firms make it to the third generation.”
Dr Gita Piramal, business historian, quoting from a study by Switzerland-based business school IMD, Business Today, March 7, 2010
“In my 22 years of working with street children, I still haven’t encountered a street child who was maimed for begging.”
Dinaz Stafford, filmmaker and trustee of Salaam Baalak Trust,
The Times of India, February 24, 2009
“The Taj cannot merely be a chain the global traveller experiences in India; rather we have to be available in our main markets. We are an Indian company with global scale. Today, you have to be a corporate samurai, like Lenovo, to survive. It’s a new form of world trade, and anyone who doesn’t fit into this mindset is asking to be fossilized.”
R. K. Krishna Kumar, vice chairman, Taj group, Business India,
April 5, 2009
“At one point one of the smugglers had chosen to stifle
the weeping little girl by putting her inside a washing machine just to shut her up and prevent them from being discovered.”
Shahin Bekhradnia writing about Zoroastrian refugees fleeing Iran,
Hamazor - Issue 1, 2009
“The first Zoroastrian who visited Japan, as far as records show, was Jamsetji N. Tata, in 1892.”
Takeshi Aoki, lecturer, Hamazor - Issue 1, 2009
“To speak good of the evil dead is to speak evil of the living good.”
Late A. D. Gorwala, editor of Opinion, quoted in Freedom First,
March 2010
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