"Earlier a person used to become a leader after writing at least a hundred articles or getting books published. Today, winning polls has become the only criterion
to become a leader.”
Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party
Member of Parliament, grandson of
Indira and Feroze Gandhi, The
Economic Times, September 3, 2016
"In Bollywood, you can either
be an action hero, romantic
hero or a dancing hero.”
John Abraham, actor, whose mother
Pheroza is a Parsi, DNA, August 24, 2016
"People also say Parsis dominate the orchestra. But there’s only
one Parsi student in the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) program and not a
single one in the orchestra.”
Khushroo N. Suntook, chairman, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
and Symphony Orchestra of India
founder, DNA, September 11, 2016
"He (Jamshed Bhabha) would
say, when the cause is good,
the means will follow. It took
eight years to get his inheritance, till which we suffered deeply.
We would get nervous when it
was time to pay salary. But well-wishers came from nowhere, donating up to a crore.”
Marat Bisengaliev, music director,
Symphony Orchestra of India, DNA,
September 11, 2016
"That swing (from a loss to profit for Tata Motors) is possibly one of the largest swings in the Indian
corporate history, something
you should be proud of.”
Cyrus Mistry, former chairman,
Tata Motors, The Economic Times,
August 10, 2016
"We don’t buy and sell stocks based upon what other people think the stock market is going
to do (I never have an opinion)
but rather upon what we think the company is going to do. In other words we tend to concentrate on what should happen, not when
it should happen.”
Warren Buffett, investor, chairman
Berkshire Hathway, The Economic Times, June 6, 2016
"One of the organizers (of the Jaipur Literary Festival) did say to one of the participants he approached ‘Dhondy? He is not an intellectual!’ — a remark for which I was wholly grateful as only Frenchmen and Bengalis would describe themselves as ‘intellectuals.’”
Farrukh Dhondy, writer,
Hindustan Times, May 24, 2016
"Take camera ads. Essentially they are trying to sell a camera. But the visual focuses on happy memories. Rarely, if ever, will they talk about the features of the camera.”
Sam Balsara, chairman and
managing director, Madison World,
G2, April-May 2016