* Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any
man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare
detachment of spirit.
* Democracy without ( parliamentary ) discourse is just a
cheap shibboleth.
* Never confuse winning with a victory.
* Let us choose our enemy well, for he is who we will become.
* If someone takes what isn't his. He must give it back, or
go to prison.
* Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked
at the stock market pages.
* It is not that humans have become any more greedy than in
generations past. It is that time avenues to express greed
had grown so enormously.
* The greater the number of laws and enactments,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
* Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot
and he creates gods by the dozen.
* Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher.
Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater.
This is my dream for Reliance and for India.
* Ethics stays in the prefaces of the average business science book.
* Only strength respects strength.
* Men and nation behave wisely once they have exhausted all the
other alternatives.
* After darkness, the sun rises and it always rises in the east.
* War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few...
The cost of operation is always transferred to the people who do
not profit.
* The basic rule of the City was that if you are incompetent
you have to be honest, and if you're crooked you have to be cleaver.
* The vast wasteland of TV is not interested in producing a better
mousetrap but in producing a worse mouse.
* The little man may think over before making his choice of electing
law-breakers as law-makers.
* We South Asians possess the courage, fortitude, vision and
spirituality to reach the stars.
* The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
* Give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer;
and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles.
* Monarchs are bound to fall into evils and all through their own folly;
they should then be resolutely restrained by ministers versed in
texts of a polity.
* It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles:
the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring
it out.
* The two most important words ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign.
" Satisfaction Guaranteed". They're still up there and they made all
the difference.
* When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts
to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as
you are, look within and examine your own self.
* There are no barriers that cannot be bridged, except the one men
create in their own minds.
* As we all struggle to find our way home, one word that emerges is
the word freedom...how fortunate we are to have it. The glory of art
is not only that it can survive change, but that it can lead it.
* In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it
or else.
* What the country requires is good governance, not a new draconian law.
* People are spending the GNP of small countries to make other people
less bored for 100 minutes.
* Debt is the worst poverty.
* Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
* It is difficult to wake up someone who is asleep. But it is extra difficult
to wake someone who is awake and asleep at the same time.
* Guidelines for bureaucrats:
1) When in charge ponder.
2) When in trouble delegate.
3) when in doubt mumble.
* While I appreciate the efforts at economic reforms, I am concerned
about their impact on the poor and weaker sections.
* I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried...but they
wanted cash.
* Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently,
debate forcefully and quote aptly.
* Increasingly the ability of the organization and not only of business,
will come to depend on their comparatives advantage in making
the knowledge worker productive.
* I am not English, not Indian, not Trinidadian. I am my own person.
* To attack a journalist is to target the pursuit of truth and freedom.
* Leadership is action, not position.
* The Universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper.
* The wolf in sheep's clothing is a fitting emblem of the hypocrite.
* Christmas always seems such a mixture of this world and the next---
but that after all is the idea!
* I care less about the gross national product and more about the
gross national happiness.
* Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other
nations caught up with ourselves in the net of life, fellow prisoners,
of the splendor and travail of the earth.
* Be the change you want to see in the world.
* The entire human race was visualized in the form of one human being.
* I saw the flaring atom-streams. And torrents of her myriad universe.
