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"I am by all means a traditional gentleman. I arrived here around 1992-1993, my address has been the same ever since. Everybody knows me here. My partners and I have invested significantly in Monaco over the past ten years. My parents are buried in the Principality, Monaco is my spiritual homeland."
"If I ever get involved in basketball, I want to make something extraordinary."
"Players need to see me, they need to know I’m here for them. That’s how I see my part in the team. We are a family, and we have to protect our family values."
"In sports, you’re either in the midst of it and work hard, or you’re on the sidelines, wasting your money for nothing."
"This applies to any finished goods production: the more stages of production are concentrated in the country, the more jobs and more profit remain in the country."
"There was a time when the chemical industry was catatonic. The factories stood idle, there were no raw materials and operating capital for the fertilizers production. At that time, a rather inconspicuous meeting of the Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian businessmen and chemical enterprises’ heads took place in Budapest. We came to the conclusion that reviving the chemical industry is worth the sweat. Was our decision risky? Absolutely."
"This money ($1m) my partners and I spent, first of all, on buying PCR-testing equipment and protective gear for medical personnel."
"I consider myself a victim of a commercial raid attack. This type of attacks is common across the former USSR states, including Ukraine, and it basically is blackmail of successful public figures by means of bribing the law enforcement agencies. They use several fabricated cases to pressure me into giving up my high-value enterprise for nothing."
"Business and politics are two opposite poles of life. There’s plenty of businesspeople that make headway in their field with the help or involvement of the authorities. It’s a personal choice, I am no judge by all means. That being said, I personally prefer keeping those two areas separated."
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.