Quotes

"Our main challenge is to build trust among the local community and educate them. We want the farmers to have a second crop, we want all expectant mothers to deliver their child in a hospital... but it is not easy to convince them.”

Ronnie Screwvala, former filmmaker and founder, UTV and Swades Foundation,
Mid Day, April 12, 2015

"To train people to make a
decent profit — decently.”

Founding mission of Harvard
University’s Graduate School of
Business Administration, circa 1908,
The Times of India, April 24, 2015

"The average age of
starting a company in the
United States is 47.”

Shruti Challa, Span,
November-December 2013

"For a person who is taking a home loan, the most important thing(s) that he should look at (are) affordability, the family should like the property, he should be confident about his job and then he should buy the property.”

Keki Mistry, vice chairman and chief executive, Housing Development Finance Corporation, Mint, January 8, 2014

"Our acquisition strategy is very clear, 3x3. Three continents, Asia, Africa and South America and in three categories where we have strong positions: personal wash, household care and hair care.”

Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej group,
Mint, January 15, 2014

"I hope that what I am writing
is not going to be seen as Parsi literature but something that’s universal, appealing and valuable to whoever reads it.”

Cyrus Mistry, writer and winner of the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, The Times of India, January 22, 2014

"If anyone wants to save the
planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single
most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”

Paul McCartney, former member of
the Beatles quoted in PETA’s Animal
Times, Winter 2014

"I would love to write a novel
some day but I’m saving that for when I’m older and I don’t have
the energy to make a film!”

Sooni Taraporevala, screeenwriter,
DNA, April 6, 2014

"How to negotiate, which card to put down first on the table, how
to sniff out the weaknesses of
the other side — my experience saw me through it all.”

Zia Mody, managing partner, AZB
Partners, Mid Day, April 20, 2014