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"I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through."
"“If you do something that’s going to get somebody a job, then they’ll be able to pay for their kids school, and then the kid is going to be a doctor and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it’s very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.”"
"‘Creating opportunities and employment for women means betting on the progress of the communities themselves. When they thrive, women invest their income in the family, health, and education. I value this as a sense of duty, commitment, and dedication. The impact that women create around them is powerful and transformative’"
"Leverage your pre-existing talents and knowledge. If you’re going into a field that you know or have past experience with then you have a competitive edge."
"I believe that goals are achieved when ambition is combined with skill and determination."
"Be willing to assess yourself and determine exactly what it is that you’re capable of doing best. If you have weaknesses in certain areas, develop them into strengths."
"‘I believe in talent and, every day, I bet on empowering the next generation of leaders. Because the development of Africa and my country is my priority as an Angolan businesswoman.’"
"“I’ve been managing companies for a long time, starting them from small, building them up, going through every single stage of what it takes for a company to be successful,”"
"“My holdings are commercial,”"
"“There are no proceeds from contracts or public contracts, or money that has been deviated from public funds.”"
"“This investment generated a large amount of return for all the parties that invested jointly,”"
"”There are no wrongdoings.”"
"“What we really want to see is people living in African cities to go from living in dwellings to living in homes,”"
"“We have taken upon ourselves to build these banks.”"
"“There’s nothing in the report that mentions me,”"
"“advisers that had worked with me in the past and that I trusted.”"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.