There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn’t ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
More and more, the superrich don’t live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Election time is when you start to hear about ‘average people,’ ‘working families,’ ‘patriotic Americans’ and such. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: ‘We are designing software for the best companies in the world.’ Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
When you first arrive in India, you think, ‘God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!’ It’s something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn’t able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying ‘thank you’ and things like that. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
