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March 2009

Perceptives

By Raman Jokhakar, Tarunkumar Singhal, Chartered Accountants
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“Start by listening, because all too often the United States
starts by dictating.”



— U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking to Al Arabiya news
channel in his first interview with a foreign news outlet, on his instructions
to his new Middle-East envoy.

 


“That’s cheap for what I do . . . . You’ve got to whet my
appetite to get me onboard.”



— Thomas Taylor, a member of Britain’s House of Lords,
caught on tape telling undercover reporters (posing as lobbyist) that
companies will pay him more than $ 140,000 a year to amend legislation.

 


“All nations have found themselves in the same boat.”



— Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, exhorting his
colleagues at the davos “economic egotism” because of the economic crisis.

 


“We have been in business for 300 years. We were hit by the
phylloxera insect in the 19th century that destroyed our vines. . . . we have
faced two world wars. I see the crisis as a challenging but constructive event.”


— Dominique
Heriard Dubreuil, Chairman of the Remy Cointreau Group – the producer of Remy
Martin cognac and Piper-Heidsieck champagne — taking the long view on the
current economic malaise.

(Source : Newsweek,
26-1-2009 and 9-2-2009)

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