Top 33 Wadhwani Quotes
#1. We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.
Romesh Wadhwani
#2. There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.
Frank Warren
#3. Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.
Romesh Wadhwani
#4. STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.
Romesh Wadhwani
#5. Those activities which are not based numbers, Which are based on humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#6. Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard Branson
#7. Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#8. No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
Romesh Wadhwani
#9. I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.
Peter Norvig
#10. Life gives pleasure only to those who explore themselves and discover their strength.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#11. Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.
Christine Lagarde
#12. If you are failure today, make yourself hopeful for tomorrow. People often say tomorrow never comes. But tomorrow is a hope and hope never dies.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#13. Beauty lies in the purity of Heart,looking good is just called prettiness.
Vansh Wadhwani
#14. Be good to others, if you wish the world to be good with you.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#15. I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.
Romesh Wadhwani
#16. If only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts.
Orson Scott Card
#17. Someone said, Love has nothing best. I said, What is better in rest.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#18. I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
#20. Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.
Romesh Wadhwani
#21. A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
Romesh Wadhwani
#22. We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
John Lennon
#24. I have committed to giving away 80% of my wealth, much of it in India, but also in other countries.
Romesh Wadhwani
#25. I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.
Romesh Wadhwani
#26. If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there.
Romesh Wadhwani
#27. For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.
Romesh Wadhwani
#28. Your thoughts are like broken stars, it appears for short period of time. So note them and share with the intellectuals who cut and polish them like diamonds.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#29. I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.
Romesh Wadhwani
#31. I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.
Romesh Wadhwani
#33. But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.
James Baldwin
