Quotes

"You should never buy a stock unless you would be happy with
it if the stock exchange closed down for the next 10 years.”

Warren Buffett, investor quoted in The Times, MoneyWeek, August 21, 2020

"Motor sport as a career is
difficult to pursue in India
due to a lack of facilities.
It requires a lot of sacrifice.
In order to succeed,
you need five to seven years
of competitive karting.”

Jehan Daruvala, the first Indian to
win an F2 race, The Economic
Times, January 8, 2021

"Old favorites like Chanel and Dior are great, and Valentino is doing incredible work. But I am all for a young designer who is not known but is doing good work.”

Natasha Poonawalla, executive
director, Serum Institute of India,
Hindustan Times, August 9, 2020

"Since I was four-and-a-half,
my twin sister and I were committed to ballet and would practise
bar techniques six out of seven days. A lot of people don’t know what ballet entails but it’s an
extremely athletic (dance) form.”

Tara Sutaria, actor, MumbaiMirror,
September 14, 2020

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, former U.S.
President, quote submitted by reader Prochy Mehta, Outlook, November 2, 2020

"Our female LPR (labor-force
participation rate) in particular, is shameful — at 21% amongst the world’s lowest. We would be 60% richer if women participated in the labor market as much as men.”

Naushad Forbes, co-chairman,
Forbes Marshall, past president, Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of Centre for Technology Innovation and Economic Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
Business Standard, December 1, 2020

"But, I would keep failing. I must have failed almost four times.
One would have given up by
then, but I refused to quit.”

Ervad Naval Jijina, painter and former textile designer, on appearing for an art examination, mid-day, January 17, 2021

"A new media policy (in Kashmir)
is to reward newspapers for
repeatedly reporting ‘a genuinely positive image of the government based on performance’ and to deny state advertising to those carrying ‘fake’ or ‘anti-national’ news.”

Darius J. Khambata, senior lawyer,
Bombay High Court, former additional
solicitor-general of India and former
advocate-general, Maharashtra, The
Indian Express, January 26, 2021