Ramesh Quotes & Sayings

The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at least the '90s, was certainly more efficient than the American economy. — Jairam Ramesh

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru. — Thota Ramesh

We can buy most things in life except time. — Ramesh Lohia

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.' — Jairam Ramesh

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Understand that nothing happens
unless it is God's will and
do what you like.
What can be simpler than that? — Ramesh S Balsekar

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth. — Ramesh Menon

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose. — Jairam Ramesh

Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Brahma emerged from the right side of Mahesa, Vishnu from the left and Nilarudra from his heart. In the beginning, intoning AUM, Sadasiva created the universe. Siva is Pranava and Pranava is Siva. — Ramesh Menon

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator. — Jairam Ramesh

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest. — Jairam Ramesh

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions. — Jairam Ramesh

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Just hearing about these lingas of grace rids a man of his sins. They are Somanatha, Mallikarjuna, Mahakaala, Parameswara, Kedara, BhimaSankara, Visvesa, Tryambaka, Vaidyanatha, Nagesa, Ramesa and Ghusmesa. Those who repeat these names daily achieve their every desire; and those who chant them with no trace of desire are released forever from birth and rebirth. When eaten, the prasada offered to these Jyotirlingas makes ashes of the sins of a thousand births. The mere sight of a Jyotirlinga can cause moksha; but these lingas were not always upon the earth. — Ramesh Menon

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy. — Jairam Ramesh

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet. — Jairam Ramesh

Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil. — Dinesh D'Souza

I kissed a ghoul and I liked it. — Ramesh Kula

I fail because I attempt! — Ramesh Sattenapalli

Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance. — Ramesh Lohia

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change — Jairam Ramesh

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do. — Jairam Ramesh

He lit the night he brought with the fire that puts out the planets when time ends. — Ramesh Menon

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers. — A.R. Rahman

Real bliss is the absence
of the wanting of bliss — Ramesh S Balsekar

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh

You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side. — Ramesh Babu

The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country. — Jairam Ramesh

10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds. — Ramesh Selvarajoo

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness. — Jairam Ramesh

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep. — Jairam Ramesh

Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters' minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks. — Ramesh Ponnuru

The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love. — Ramesh S Balsekar

A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. — Jairam Ramesh

It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual ... When I look at the debate over Elian ... I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives. — Ramesh Ponnuru

The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell. — Ramesh Menon

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions. — Jairam Ramesh