Kaumudi Epaper Quotes & Sayings

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money. — Richard Wagner

What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo? — David Mitchell

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting. — Winston S. Churchill

Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world. — Dan Quayle

Higher salaries were not the only way the government strove to staunch the bleeding. In the past, before admin salaries were raised, government leaders intervened when officers they considered key were targeted. Dr Goh Keng Swee, then still in the Cabinet, once told me: "We only let you take those we were prepared to release." In one celebrated case, in the early 1960s, he personally stepped in to stop one important hire. The paper's British management had recruited Herman Hochstadt, a rising young officer who later became permanent secretary. The morning he was to start work, even before he could settle in his chair at Times House, he found that Dr Goh had demanded his return to the civil service. — Cheong Yip Seng

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. — Charles Caleb Colton

Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you. — Cary Middlecoff

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go. — Robin Williams