Quotes
So they say
“If we accept the premise that the purpose of a business is
to create a customer, then the role of marketing is identifying
this customer, understanding her and connecting with her becomes the core around which all our activities are centered.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
The Economic Times, February 7, 2011
“In capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not (traditional) competition that counts but competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization.”
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, quoted by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha in Mint, February 16, 2011
“The law keeps on changing. You need to keep pace with the regulatory march. You are nobody if you don’t read.”
Zia Mody, co-founder, AZB and Partners, The Times of India, August 6, 2011
“If you look at the entire market for food in India, only nine percent of that is packaged and branded. So 91 percent of food that we are consuming is unbranded.”
Vinita Bali, managing director, Britannia, a company whose majority shareholders are the Nusli Wadia family, Mint, May 30, 2011
“While we were speaking with the employees, one person
said that a large conference room had three switches controlling a number of bulbs. You switched one on, and a number of bulbs would light up. When we arrived the next day, we noticed that the employees had removed every alternate bulb, on their own.”
Rashneh Pardiwala, director, Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), Mid Day, March 27, 2011
“I never did a 100 films after my success with Dil To Pagal Hai. What on earth would I want to do them for? Beyond a certain point of well-being what can one do with money? Materially I feel I will always be comfortable though I may never live in luxury. Today my priority is
dance education and teaching kids all about dance.”
Shiamak Davar, choreographer, DNA, March 23, 2011
“President Dmitri A. Medvedev is so worried about Russia’s shrinking citizenry that families that have a third child can get plots of land
up to 1,500 square metres.”
Chrystia Freeland, Reuters, The Indian Express, August 2, 2011
“You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”
Kahlil Gibran, poet, quoted in FEZANA Journal — Spring 2011
to create a customer, then the role of marketing is identifying
this customer, understanding her and connecting with her becomes the core around which all our activities are centered.”
Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group,
The Economic Times, February 7, 2011
“In capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not (traditional) competition that counts but competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization.”
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, quoted by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha in Mint, February 16, 2011
“The law keeps on changing. You need to keep pace with the regulatory march. You are nobody if you don’t read.”
Zia Mody, co-founder, AZB and Partners, The Times of India, August 6, 2011
“If you look at the entire market for food in India, only nine percent of that is packaged and branded. So 91 percent of food that we are consuming is unbranded.”
Vinita Bali, managing director, Britannia, a company whose majority shareholders are the Nusli Wadia family, Mint, May 30, 2011
“While we were speaking with the employees, one person
said that a large conference room had three switches controlling a number of bulbs. You switched one on, and a number of bulbs would light up. When we arrived the next day, we noticed that the employees had removed every alternate bulb, on their own.”
Rashneh Pardiwala, director, Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), Mid Day, March 27, 2011
“I never did a 100 films after my success with Dil To Pagal Hai. What on earth would I want to do them for? Beyond a certain point of well-being what can one do with money? Materially I feel I will always be comfortable though I may never live in luxury. Today my priority is
dance education and teaching kids all about dance.”
Shiamak Davar, choreographer, DNA, March 23, 2011
“President Dmitri A. Medvedev is so worried about Russia’s shrinking citizenry that families that have a third child can get plots of land
up to 1,500 square metres.”
Chrystia Freeland, Reuters, The Indian Express, August 2, 2011
“You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”
Kahlil Gibran, poet, quoted in FEZANA Journal — Spring 2011
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