To be precise

“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

“India has gone from hero to zero in six months”
Andrew Holland, Head (Proprietary Trading), Merrill Lynch India, in BusinessWeek online

“How to tame inflation? Patience”
P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, in The Economic Times

“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

“Tier-II cities are where the real action is. People are eager to try out aspirational products... like wine and cheese, champagne and caviar, I see single malts and Kashmiri food catching on in India fast”
Asif Adil, MD, Diageo India , in Business Standard

“For farmers, a remunerative price is the best fertiliser”
M. S. Swaminathan, Father of the Green Revolution, in The New York Times

“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

“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

“We believe in our brand. So should our investors”
Ramesh Sanka, CFO, DLF, on the company’s buyback offer, in Business Standard