To be precise

“The whole perspective in which companies are viewed needs to shift from short to the long term, and as I would say, to a focus on shapes, not just numbers”
Indra Nooyi, Chairperson, PepsiCo, while addressing a meeting of CEOs at the Economy Club of Washington recently, to Agencies

“Every opportunity one misses looks to be a loss, and sometimes appears to be a gain. Satyam was an opportunity, which we would love to have won, but the fact that we lost also gave a chance to go back to our core operations”
A.M. Naik, Chairman & Managing Director, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), in The Economic Times

“During the boom, all you fellows called us conservatives and now you call us heroes. We were not heroes then; we are not heroes now” Aditya Puri, Managing Director, HDFC Bank, referring to the media, in Mint “His performance as a minister was one of the most spectacular, I would say, in the history of India. I felt that he (was able to) do pretty much what he had on his agenda. He was the one who did stuff”
Dinesh Keskar, India Head, Boeing, talking about Praful Patel, Civil Aviation Minister, in BusinessWeek online