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“We talk about girls”

Naresh Goyal, Founder and Chairman, Jet Airways, when asked what he talks about when meeting India’s other billionaire friends such as Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, President and CEO, Arcelor Mittal, and Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD, Reliance Industries, in The Economist

"Every company has its own strategy and if we keep reacting to them, our own strategy will fail"

Jagdish Khattar, MD, Maruti Udyog, on Tata Motors’ Rs 1-lakh car, in The Indian Express

“Our ambition is to be a global Indian entertainment company—there’s no reason why we can’t make big-budget Hollywood movies, too”

Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications, in Newsweek

“In the cities, there are 10,000 cars moving in two hours but there are tens of thousands of people sleeping on the footpath, listening to the cars passing. Unless we address this problem, India will shine only for a while”

A.M. Naik, CMD, Larsen & Toubro, in The Times

“The way I think about my business is that I have the ICICI brand and it is an extremely stretchable brand”

Renuka Ramanth, MD and CEO, ICICI Venture, in Mint

“The company is willing to take big risks and our DNA is being reinvented to tackle them. It may seem frightening from the outside, but we have fair levels of comfort within as we have consistently done so in the past”

Percy Siganporia, Managing Director, Tata Tea, in The Economic Times

“Outside P&G, I think Harry Potter. You had to be dead to miss it”

James Stengel, Global Marketing Officer, Procter & Gamble, on the best marketing he’s seen recently, in Fortune

“Viral isn’t something you can just make happen. It has to be inherent in your product”

Roelof Botha, Venture Capitalist, who helped build YouTube and PayPal, two of the most successful internet companies, in Forbes

“The human race has never found a way to confront bubbles”

Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, in BBC Online