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“The greatest management barrier in India is simply that most managers don’t know what is possible. Indian managers could change the standard of living of the whole country if they only understood the basic lean principles”
James P. Womack, Founder-Chairman of Lean Enterprise Institute, a non-profit educational and research organisation, in Business Standard

“We’re in the lead not only in India, but in the whole world in delivering healthcare for the poor”
P.K. Agarwal, Health Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh, in BusinessWeek online

“Making money is not the only pleasure in life. Humans are not single-dimensional entities”
Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi Nobel laureate, in The Economic Times

“I was an eternal optimist; now I have become a realist. Everybody has miscalculated”
Kishore Biyani, Chairman, Pantaloon Retail, referring to the retail slowdown, in Wall Street Journal

“Everyone is trying to make an iPhone killer. We are trying to make a killer Palm product”
Jon Rubinstein, Executive Chairman, Palm, in The New York Times

“A slowdown in GDP growth will obviously be reflected in individual sub-sectors, so, this is not adding anything to what is known. I will only add that India can grow at the rate of 9 per cent over five years (during the 11th Plan period)”
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, to Agencies

“An important step has been taken towards the journey to becoming a truly transformational player”
S. Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Technologies, on the acquisition of the UK-based Axon Group, in The Economic Times

“We can’t operate the plant with police protection”
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group, referring to the Nano plant in Singur, to Agencies

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. But if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will make it work”
Ed Catmull, Cofounder of Pixar and President, Pixar & Disney Animation Studios, in Harvard Business Review South Asia