v
“India cannot be held to any emission control target. They (developed
countries) should get off our backs. We are an expanding economy. How can we
levy a cap when millions are living with deprivation ?”
R.
K. Pachauri, Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to
IANS
v
“If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be
a hero. And even if you are a hero one day, you may well become a villain the
next”
Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Nissan and Renault, in Newsweek
v
“Technology will not be a differentiator between rich and poor consumers;
personalised experience will be”
C.
K. Prahalad, Professor, Ross School of Business, at the University of
Michigan, in Mint
v
“Being a CEO is like answering a call to bring the organisation to a better
place than where you found it”
Edward J. Ludwig, CEO, Becton, Dickinson and Company, in Harvard Business
Review
v
“I don’t see anybody in Washington or anywhere else saying, look, this energy
crisis is the biggest one we’ve had, let’s really put the best people to work
on figuring out how to reduce the country’s dependence on oil”
Indra Nooyi, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, in Reuters.com
v
“People in India are simple folks, who work hard and save. I believe that the
simpler the product (insurance), the better will be the reception”
P.
Chidambaram, Finance Minister, in Hindustan Times
v
“Over the last several decades, revolutions in communication and technology
have sent jobs wherever there’s Internet connections; that have forced
children in Raleigh and Boston to compete for those jobs with children in
Bangalore and Beijing. We live in a more competitive world, and that is a fact
that cannot be reversed”
Barack Obama, Democrat Party candidate for the US presidential election, in
The Times of India
v
“Once things start slowing down in India, we think that the competition may
give up. We see that as an opportunity”
Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP Group, in Mint
v
“You have to encourage experimentation. You must hire people who don’t listen
to you. You have to create a sandbox where people can play — and fail, often
and early”
Anand Mahindra, Vice-Chairman & MD, Mahindra & Mahindra, in Harvard Business
Review
