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“In any competitive environment, there will be some who excel and some who do not. There will always be winners and losers. It is not a reflection of how they (employees who have been asked to leave on the basis of their performance) will do in another company or in future”
S. Gopalakrishnan, MD & CEO, Infosys Technologies, in Business Standard

“If the price and time proportions between the waves in the 2003-08 rally continue, the Sensex should hit 100,000 in about 15 years”
Mark Galasiewski, Editor, US-based global equity research group Elliott Wave International’s Asia-Pacific Financial Forecast, to Agencies

“Stress is a good thing. The Indian market is exciting, demanding and challenging. (But) right now, the idea is to remain cautiously optimistic”
Michael Boneham, President & MD, Ford India, in The Economic Times

“Satyam is a very valuable company and the fact that Tech Mahindra is taking over is positive news. You are seeing Satyam, in some sense, being reborn with a new investor, a new owner”
Kiran Karnik, Chairman, Satyam Computer Services board, in Business Standard

“Aneesh Chopra is one of technology’s leading lights. He believes to his core that innovation and technology are the backbone of our economy”
Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel, on Indian-American Aneesh Chopra, President Barack Obama’s pick for US’ Chief Technology Officer, in BusinessWeek online