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Twenty metric tonnes of confiscated gold, worth US$200 million, held in its vaults was made available by the RBI to the State Bank of India for sale, with a repurchase option, to the Union Bank of Switzerland.
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“We reject nothing useful for its plainness, we take nothing irrelevant for its dazzle.”
― 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
― 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History
“The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.”
― One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
― One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
“I calculated the backstop value, and it was something like fifty cents on the dollar, while the actual debt was trading at twenty-five cents,” Musk said.”
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
“Musk had spent months studying the aerospace industry and the physics behind it. From Cantrell and others, he’d borrowed Rocket Propulsion Elements, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics, and Aerothermodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion, along with several more seminal texts.”
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
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