Ravenscliffe Quotes & Sayings

Well, coming back to public issues and small investors, it is worth mentioning one example from ICICI bank. Towards the end of 2005 ICICI bank conducted its FPO to raise close to Rs 5,000 crores. It was announced that retail investors would be allotted shares at a rate fiver percent below the cutoff price determined by book building process. Every other section of investors were allotted shares at Rs 525 each. The same shares were offered to retail investors at Rs 498.75. A company can propose to issue shares at different prices for different categories of investors. Such a facility is known as 'differential pricing'. That would happen only if the company feels it would be difficult to get rid of the supply to a particular section of investors. Otherwise, — Chellamuthu Kuppusamy

The surprise element of her betrayal was what burned me the most. The fact that I never saw it coming. — Emily Giffin

While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters. — Paul Waldman

Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope. — Kate DiCamillo

Two sure ways to fail- Think and never do or do and never think. — Zig Ziglar

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain. — Swami Vivekananda

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships. — Herbert Hoover

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end. — Eckhart Tolle

I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea. — Chris Onstad

I move between San Francisco and Paris ... I have a wonderful beach house in California. — Danielle Steel

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end? — Francoise D'Aubigne, Marquise De Maintenon

The name of happiness is but a wider termfor the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life,attendant on all function, and not to be deny'dto th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of naturespiritual is by definition unnatural. — Robert Bridges

The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics. — John Von Neumann

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face. — David Cameron

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years. — Stefan Molyneux