Romesh Wadhwani Quotes

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No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.

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Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

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STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.

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I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

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I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

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I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

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I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

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I have committed to giving away 80% of my wealth, much of it in India, but also in other countries.

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If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there.

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We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

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I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.

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Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

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