Quotes
"I buy expensive suits. They
just look cheap on me.”
Warren Buffett, billionaire businessman and philanthropist, The Economic Times, December 9, 2014
"A doctor well-trained in technology can charge a great deal. Sometimes it is inappropriate.”
Dr Farokh Udwadia, physician,
The Times of India, December 7, 2014
"My first thought was, did it
take them 19 years to come
across it? I’ve heard of slow
cooking, but slow reading? I
heard that the sales of the
book went up after that.”
Rohinton Mistry, novelist whose book Such a long journey was dropped from the Bombay University BA curriculum after the Shiv Sena objected, The Times of India, December 7, 2014
"The combination of Parsis, lawyers, businessmen and intellectuals (some belonging to more than one category) was at the heart of Congress power in Bombay.”
Lord Meghnad Desai, The Indian Express, November 30, 2014
"When we grew up, I had only two shoes — black and PT shoes. Now you have work, party, for sports... everything is fragmented. It’s hard to develop brands in developed categories to work with a single dimension. You have to be more complete than one dimensional.”
Shireesh Joshi, Head-Strategic Marketing, Godrej group, DNA, November 24, 2014
"The entire parking facility has, during all these years, been
maintained in perfect condition
by the (Bombay) Gymkhana at its
cost and expense, including
security, surface maintenance
and repairs, lighting and upkeep
of trees, plants, etc. It is arguably one of the best maintained footpaths of South Bombay.”
Darius Udwadia, president, Bombay
Gymkhana, The Economic Times,
October 29, 2014
"Mature scientific thought
process will tell you that we — homo sapiens — are neither carnivores nor herbivores, we are omnivores. This flexibility of being able to metabolize both plant and animal sources of nutrition has allowed us to survive and multiply in all kinds of geographical locations.”
Kaizzad Capadia, co-founder and
director, K11 Fitness Academy, DNA,
October 26, 2014
"Pew (Research Centre) predicts that by 2030 28% of American men who were aged between 25-34 in
2010 — and 23% of women — will never have tied the knot. In 1980 only six percent of 45-54-year-olds had never been hitched.”
The Economist, reprinted in The Indian Express, October 3, 2014