Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

I rarely do any back story. I often get a thick bible of back story, but I can't use it. The back story is a tool of the writer. But I can only act what's in the scene. ”

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive. ”

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing. ”

Today, to find a challenge is really hard. In the Alps, everything is done. The new lines, almost all of them are finished. So to find a new challenge, it's all beginning to go to speed. ”

I don't need to come back to Everest. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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