Quotes
So they say
“A. D. Shroff was so frenetic a worker that his doctor once told him, ‘You are like a woman who wants to have a baby but cannot wait nine months!’ That is the spirit of urgency we need.”
R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director, Tata Sons Ltd, 41st A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture, October 12, 2007, Forum of Free Enterprise
“Deven (Khote) and I were the first employees, and then we weren’t even UTV! There was no work for years... But then came Mathemagic, my first show. Soon we developed Lifeline, Contact, Shanti... You cannot knock luck out. It was a lot of luck that helped us succeed.”
Zarina Mehta, founder, director and chief executive officer of UTV, Business India, September 6-19, 2010
“Being a good photographer calls for skill in handling people. As a rule, I never asked my subjects to pose — that would have made them look theatrical. People’s moods and expressions are constantly changing and you have to be alert to capture them.”
Homai Vyarawalla, the only professional woman photojournalist
in India during her time, The Economic Times, September 1, 2010
“A sizeable portion of my Indian colleagues thinks logically. While that’s good, there’s too much discussion, which means implemen-tation at times takes a backseat.”
Hiroshi Nakagawa, managing director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor,
The Economic Times, September 3, 2010
“Digital printing growth has exponentially grown and continues to accelerate whereas conventional printing is barely growing, at best replacing obsolete equipment.”
Fred Poonawala, president, The Bombay Master Printers’ Association, Printvision-India, Volume 11, June-July 2010
“Household things, most of which are made by us, I always use our own. The refrigerator in my house is Godrej, so is the furniture. Even my hair color is Godrej hair color. If I don’t have the faith that our products are the best in the field then how will my consumers have that faith?”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group, Society, September 2010
“Nearly all American businesses start small. In 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were more than 25 million companies in the United States. Nearly four out of five companies were one-person shops, just a single entrepreneur trying to make his or her idea into a viable business. Of the nearly six million firms with employees on staff, more than half had four employees or less. But these firms were paying their employees more than $ 200 billion dollars a year in salary.”
AmericanCenter newsletter, September 2010
R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director, Tata Sons Ltd, 41st A. D. Shroff Memorial Lecture, October 12, 2007, Forum of Free Enterprise
“Deven (Khote) and I were the first employees, and then we weren’t even UTV! There was no work for years... But then came Mathemagic, my first show. Soon we developed Lifeline, Contact, Shanti... You cannot knock luck out. It was a lot of luck that helped us succeed.”
Zarina Mehta, founder, director and chief executive officer of UTV, Business India, September 6-19, 2010
“Being a good photographer calls for skill in handling people. As a rule, I never asked my subjects to pose — that would have made them look theatrical. People’s moods and expressions are constantly changing and you have to be alert to capture them.”
Homai Vyarawalla, the only professional woman photojournalist
in India during her time, The Economic Times, September 1, 2010
“A sizeable portion of my Indian colleagues thinks logically. While that’s good, there’s too much discussion, which means implemen-tation at times takes a backseat.”
Hiroshi Nakagawa, managing director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor,
The Economic Times, September 3, 2010
“Digital printing growth has exponentially grown and continues to accelerate whereas conventional printing is barely growing, at best replacing obsolete equipment.”
Fred Poonawala, president, The Bombay Master Printers’ Association, Printvision-India, Volume 11, June-July 2010
“Household things, most of which are made by us, I always use our own. The refrigerator in my house is Godrej, so is the furniture. Even my hair color is Godrej hair color. If I don’t have the faith that our products are the best in the field then how will my consumers have that faith?”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group, Society, September 2010
“Nearly all American businesses start small. In 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were more than 25 million companies in the United States. Nearly four out of five companies were one-person shops, just a single entrepreneur trying to make his or her idea into a viable business. Of the nearly six million firms with employees on staff, more than half had four employees or less. But these firms were paying their employees more than $ 200 billion dollars a year in salary.”
AmericanCenter newsletter, September 2010
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