Uday Quotes & Sayings

What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India. — Uday Kotak

Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future. — Uday Kotak

If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan. — Uday Kotak

By holding hands a couple can always say a lot of things they couldn't have otherwise said in a public place. Among a million people, they can touch and tickle each other at their most intimate places: their hearts. — Uday Mukerji

Kotak Mahindra Bank has very significant presence in the West and the North, and our total branch network between these two regions is 80 per cent, and in case of ING Vysya Bank, their network in South is 64 per cent of their total branch network. — Uday Kotak

I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?' — Uday Kotak

Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs. — Uday Kotak

Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk. — Uday Kotak

My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70. — Uday Kotak

All we have in love are two unprotected hearts in an open field. And that's why our hearts bleed so much when we get hurt. — Uday Mukerji

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period. — Uday Kiran

Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans. — Uday Kotak

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives. — Uday Kiran

Nothing is forever, be it a good time or a bad time; nothing stays the same. Leaves change, seasons change, and so do people. And when people change, our relationships change with that. — Uday Mukerji

I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress. — Uday Kotak

We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best. — Uday Kiran

Silence doesn't mean no activity; it means highly synchronized actions, much like the work of a well-tuned motor. More noise and vibration never assure better engine performance; indeed, quite the opposite. — Uday Mukerji

Surrounded by water
Miles into the ocean
All out alone
Searching for a beacon — Uday Mane

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war. — Janis Karpinski

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star. — Uday Kiran

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere. — Uday Kotak

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution. — Uday Kotak

The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India. — Uday S. Kulkarni

I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir. — Uday Kiran

If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors. — Uday Kotak

Those who can truly love, they're like candles; they don't mind sacrificing themselves for the sake of love. But the rest of us are candle holders. We love and appreciate the light of love, but are too afraid to burn ourselves down to light up someone else's life. — Uday Mukerji

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution. — Uday Kotak

Why, when two people start living together, do they end up hurting each other so much? Maybe that's an indication that too much of anything isn't good. — Uday Mukerji

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me. — Uday Kotak

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India. — Uday Kotak

I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir. — Uday Kiran

I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me. — Uday Kiran

As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try. — Uday Kotak

convocation. 'Impossibility is an inherent part of nature, an ancient beast. It instils fear in your heart. Yet, you have to accept it, embrace it. It'll be a terrible experience, mind you. But you need to bear it and then forget it. Just put a number on that piece of memory and lock it in a closet inside your mind. What's that number, you might ask. Well, it's the probability. Of you succeeding, against all odds. And it will be low, very low. That's why you need to hide it from your eyes. Just remember that your probability of succeeding is never zero. Once you have done that, use every quantum of energy available in your body to achieve what people so fondly call as the impossible. You can do it. I know that. And the day you do, you'll realize that the number didn't matter at all. — Uday Satpathy

I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey. — Uday Kotak

The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced. — Uday Kotak

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people. — Uday Kotak

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well. — Uday Kiran

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India. — Uday Kotak

I was not very keen on joining the family business ... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality. — Uday Kotak

The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform. — Uday Kotak

I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated. — Uday Kotak

If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities. — Uday Kotak

In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns. — Uday Kotak

I don't let anything kill my spirit. — Uday Kiran

It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough. — Uday Kotak

A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. — Uday Kotak

A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon. — Uday Kotak

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it. — Uday Kotak

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers. — Uday Kotak

I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams. — Uday Kotak

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets. — Uday Kotak

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission Accomplished' declaration, the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam's capture, the transfer of sovereignty, the three rounds of voting, the Plan for Victory, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Every new milestone, however illusory, allows the Administration to avoid thinking ahead, to the years when the mistakes of Iraq will continue to haunt the U.S. — George Packer

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed. — Uday Kotak

My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient. — Uday Kotak

[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, Godwilling. — Uday Hussein

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway. — Uday Kotak

I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale. — Henry Rollins

If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market. — Uday Kotak

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it. — Uday Kotak

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life. — Uday Kotak

We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls. — Uday Kotak

The single biggest resource India has is people and skill. — Uday Kotak

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board. — Uday Kotak

We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities. — Uday Kotak

I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career. — Uday Kiran

I would have loved to have been a cricketer. — Uday Kotak

My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it. — Uday Kotak

Sorry' is, indeed, one of the most difficult and most powerful words in the English language, provided one can feel and say it at the same time. It's difficult because you sincerely need to feel the pain of the other person and rise above your ego to say it; it's powerful because you overwhelm the other with the opposite reaction of what they were expecting. — Uday Mukerji

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things. — Uday Kotak

I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises. — Uday Kiran

Pain is the curse of mortals. We must learn to live with it. — Uday Mane

Ask anyone; possibly ninety-five percent of our wishes have come true. The unfortunate part is, we all overlook that, and regret all our lives and torment ourselves for not getting the other five percent. — Uday Mukerji

If India grows steadily and does the structural things right and carefully unties knots, builds an institutional process which sort of cleans up the corruption and the baggage in the system, I see it as a wonderful marathon. — Uday Kotak

If you read any poetry or stories coming out these days, you know what I mean when I say that you can smell the stench of liquor coming from the words they write. And underneath their sentences lies a pile of chicken and goat bones, and the skeletons of the innocent ones. If you poke the head of the broom into contemporary literature, you'll find a hollow wall stuffed full of money - impure, dirty money. — Uday Prakash

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice. — Uday Kotak

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free. — Uday Kotak

Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that. — Uday Kiran

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept. — Uday Kotak

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently. — Uday Kotak

Like we all sync our watches every year, at the start and at the end of daylight saving time, we also need to sync our relationships once in a while. — Uday Mukerji

I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover. — Uday Hussein

What women do in front of a mirror with few brushes and colors is, indeed, an art. — Uday Mukerji

Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein. — Barbara Demick

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness. — Uday Kotak

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that. — Uday Kiran