A Quote by Ratan Tata

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

Ratan Tata

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Ratan Tata
Indian - Businessman
Born: December 28, 1937

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Arthur Guiterman

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

William Arthur Ward

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

Jose Mourinho

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

Lecrae

There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Demetri Martin

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.

Nico

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

J. Oswald Sanders

The Indians, they don't fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won't be able to do if it's made clearly into a monument or a wilderness. Once you put a monument there, you do restrict a lot of things that could be done, and that includes use of the land... Just take my word for it.

Orrin Hatch

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!