Quotes
So they say
“There are innocent, faithful people (who) are manipulated
by some other people whose interest is different. Their
interest is not religion but power or sometimes money. They
manipulate religious faith. In such cases, we must make a distinction: these (bad things) are not caused by religion.”
Dalai Lama in response to a reader’s query on religion being used as a pretext for violence, Time, July 5, 2010
“In India we do not have a settlement culture... Mediation
and arbitration as a mode of dispute settlement is popular and successful in other countries.”
Sarosh Kapadia, Chief Justice of India, Mumbai Mirror, July 11, 2010
“Did you know: Prayer was the first form of wireless communication?”
Hosi P.Mehta, president, Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago, February 2009 Newsletter
“The first generation starts the business, the second generation grows the business, and the third generation destroys it.”
Dr Gita Piramal, business historian, author and chairman, Ergo,
Business Today, March 7, 2010
“The fourth generation is in close touch with the aspirations
of our younger consumers. We have given them the responsibility of revamping the consumer image and they are contributing remendously to the group.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej group, Business Today, March 7, 2010
“I don’t see (Godrej and Boyce ever going public)... simply because there is no need for it. We have no need for funds at this point and Godrej and Boyce itself generates Rs 500 crore of cash each year.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Godrej and Boyce,
Business Today, July 25, 2010
“There is a question that I am always asked — why not
candies or chocolates or soft drinks? Today, to put another
brand, the cost would be very high. We haven’t
reached the true potential of Rasna itself.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and managing director,
Rasna Limited, DNA, April 16, 2010
“I believe that the business of government is to govern and
not be in business. How true the Gujarati proverb: ‘Where the king becomes a trader, there his subjects become beggars.’”
Minoo Masani, Freedom First, November 2009
“By the time (former US President Herber Hoover) died, he had tamed his critics and turned up as a regular on Gallup’s list of the most admired men. How’d he do it? ‘I outlived the bastards,’ he said.”
Nancy Gibbs, Time, February 2, 2009
by some other people whose interest is different. Their
interest is not religion but power or sometimes money. They
manipulate religious faith. In such cases, we must make a distinction: these (bad things) are not caused by religion.”
Dalai Lama in response to a reader’s query on religion being used as a pretext for violence, Time, July 5, 2010
“In India we do not have a settlement culture... Mediation
and arbitration as a mode of dispute settlement is popular and successful in other countries.”
Sarosh Kapadia, Chief Justice of India, Mumbai Mirror, July 11, 2010
“Did you know: Prayer was the first form of wireless communication?”
Hosi P.Mehta, president, Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago, February 2009 Newsletter
“The first generation starts the business, the second generation grows the business, and the third generation destroys it.”
Dr Gita Piramal, business historian, author and chairman, Ergo,
Business Today, March 7, 2010
“The fourth generation is in close touch with the aspirations
of our younger consumers. We have given them the responsibility of revamping the consumer image and they are contributing remendously to the group.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej group, Business Today, March 7, 2010
“I don’t see (Godrej and Boyce ever going public)... simply because there is no need for it. We have no need for funds at this point and Godrej and Boyce itself generates Rs 500 crore of cash each year.”
Jamshyd Godrej, chairman, Godrej and Boyce,
Business Today, July 25, 2010
“There is a question that I am always asked — why not
candies or chocolates or soft drinks? Today, to put another
brand, the cost would be very high. We haven’t
reached the true potential of Rasna itself.”
Piruz Khambatta, chairman and managing director,
Rasna Limited, DNA, April 16, 2010
“I believe that the business of government is to govern and
not be in business. How true the Gujarati proverb: ‘Where the king becomes a trader, there his subjects become beggars.’”
Minoo Masani, Freedom First, November 2009
“By the time (former US President Herber Hoover) died, he had tamed his critics and turned up as a regular on Gallup’s list of the most admired men. How’d he do it? ‘I outlived the bastards,’ he said.”
Nancy Gibbs, Time, February 2, 2009
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