To be precise
“We really don’t want customers to wait for the car. As my friend (Fiat Chairman) di Montezemolo said in Paris, waiting to buy a car is like waiting for a pretty woman. If you wait too long, she might get old and fat,” says Ratan Tata.
“We really don’t want customers to wait for the car. As my friend (Fiat Chairman) di Montezemolo said in Paris, waiting to buy a car is like waiting for a pretty woman. If you wait too long, she might get old and fat”
— Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group, on the launch of the Rs 1-lakh car Nano, to Agencies
“99 per cent of the people watch the tournament on TV anyway. Only 1 per cent goes to the stadiums, so nothing will change for the fans”
— Lalit Modi, Commissioner, IPL, on the decision to shift the 2nd season of the league out of India, in The Economic Times
“We are taking the complexity out, not the capabilities”
— Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, talking of Microsoft’s strategy vis-á-vis that of Google or Amazon, in New York Times
“I am glad this downturn happened now because all of us (the industry) were always consumed with 30-40 per cent growth, thinking about hiring the next thousand professionals and purely executing. We were not really thinking about what next”
—Girish Paranjpe, Jt-CEO, Wipro, in The Economic Times
“I have asked the employees of AIG Financial Products to step up and do the right thing. Specifically, I have asked those who received retention payments of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments”
— Edward M. Liddy, CEO, AIG, to Agencies
— Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group, on the launch of the Rs 1-lakh car Nano, to Agencies
“99 per cent of the people watch the tournament on TV anyway. Only 1 per cent goes to the stadiums, so nothing will change for the fans”
— Lalit Modi, Commissioner, IPL, on the decision to shift the 2nd season of the league out of India, in The Economic Times
“We are taking the complexity out, not the capabilities”
— Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, talking of Microsoft’s strategy vis-á-vis that of Google or Amazon, in New York Times
“I am glad this downturn happened now because all of us (the industry) were always consumed with 30-40 per cent growth, thinking about hiring the next thousand professionals and purely executing. We were not really thinking about what next”
—Girish Paranjpe, Jt-CEO, Wipro, in The Economic Times
“I have asked the employees of AIG Financial Products to step up and do the right thing. Specifically, I have asked those who received retention payments of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments”
— Edward M. Liddy, CEO, AIG, to Agencies
