Paisa Quotes

People sleeping on pavements gives industry a bad name. My friend was saying last week—he’s the director of a multinational, mind you, not some small, two-paisa business—he was saying that at least two hundred million people are surplus to requirements, they should be eliminated.

Jindagi bhar gadhe ki tarah slog marane se aur kuchh din rich Arab Shaikh ki tarah paisa bahane se quality of life change nahi ho jaati. We only remember one week of good time, but never go back to what we scarified for that one week.

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it

Kaam humaara marzi ka, paisa tumhaara marzi ka

This is a bank that does not know anything beyond business. Chetan told me, 'When we make presentations to our MD, he says, "Teri unchi English mere ko samajh me nahi aati hai; mere ko ye bata ki ladoo kidhar hai."' Everybody in HDFC Bank understands what ladoo (a ball-shaped sweetmeat) stands for. The presentations don't last more than four to five slides. Aditya loves talking to the point. 'Paisa kidhar hai woh dikha, mujhe aur kuch nahi samajhta hai, seedha baat pe aa. Mujhe tu global gyan mat de.

जो स्वत:च्या अनुभवातून शिकतो, तो हुशार माणूस समजला जातो पण जो इतरांच्या अनुभवातून शिकतो तो खरा चाणाक्ष माणूस.

Jacopetti’s Mondo Cane series of documentary films enjoyed a huge vogue in the 1960s. They cunningly mixed genuine film of atrocities, religious cults and ‘Believe-it-or-not’ examples of human oddity with carefully faked footage. The fake war newsreel (and most war newsreels are faked to some extent, usually filmed on manoeuvres) has always intrigued me - my version of Platoon, Full Metal Jacket or All Quiet on the Western Front would be a newsreel compilation so artfully faked as to convince the audience that it was real, while at the same time reminding them that it might be wholly contrived. The great Italian neo-realist, Roberto Rossellini, drew close to this in Open City and Paisa.

(...) el medellinense, bien salga a pueblo, aldea o campo, se vuelve otro, en cuanto da un paso fuera de Medellín: los entrecejos arrugados de los grandes se alisan no poco, desaparece la muequita despreciativa de las señoras encopetadas, y baja el termómetro de la superioridad