Quotes

"Alphabet (Google’s parent
company) invests more in R&D
(research and development)
(USD 26 billion, INR 2.1 lakh crore) than all of India — every public laboratory, university and firm put together. So does the top
Chinese firm, Huawei (USD 19 billion, INR 1.5 lakh crore).”

The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential (Harper Business 2022), Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for
Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and Ananta Aspen Centre

"There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business — or life. There are basically three kinds of people, the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”

Jon Huntsman Sr, quoted in Tata,
Living by Values: A Travelogue by Donn
Doongaji (The Write Place 2022)
"The exclusion of migrants is
disgusting, it is sinful. It is
criminal not to open doors to
those who are needy.”

Pope Francis, The Indian Express,
October 10, 2022

"They wanted to bury us, but they did not know we were seeds.”

Proverb cited by Susanne Wengle, Nancy R. Dreux Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame and
Vitalii Dankevych, dean of the Faculty of Law, Public Administration and National Security, Polissia National University in Ukraine, on the Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion, The Washington
Post, September 2, 2022

"All men desire peace, but
only few desire those things
that make for peace.”

Thomas A. Kempis, German-Dutch canon,
Inspirational Quote, October 2022

"There would be Irani canteens
at theaters-turned-cinemas, and even at the race course. An Irani may have sat at the galla (cash counter) of one restaurant, but
he would be a sleeping partner
in 10 other restaurants. The kind
of financial growth they were
able to achieve in one generation has not been replicated by the second and the third.”

Dr Simin Patel, scholar and founder
director, Bombaywalla Historical Works, sunday mid-day, September 4, 2022

"Come hail or high water; we
have conducted 14 successive synchronous decennial
censuses since 1881. To not
conduct the 2021 census in
2023 will be a serious negative signal for the government.”

Omkar Goswami, chairperson,
Corporate and Economic Research
Group Advisory, appealing to the
government to hold the delayed
2021 census, The Economic
Times, September 16, 2022