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So they say

"If I had a family, I could not have spent as much of my time
involved with the group. And, things would be very different,
in terms of eating, sleeping, living for your job. And yet it hasn’t felt like a job.
It’s been more like a personal issue. It hasn’t been for money, it hasn’t been for visibility.
It’s just been the challenge and, to a great extent, the passion, in terms of how I
have looked at my job.”

Ratan Tata, chairman emeritus, Tata
Group, The Financial Times reprinted in
The Indian Express, December 17, 2012

"For 10 years, I have been trying to educate the community
to turn off their cellphones before they go inside our most sacred
fire temples, and I have failed. And now we think the community will
give up diclofenac in a couple of months?”

Khurshed Dastoor, high priest, The New York Times, November 30, 2012

"The inherent demand for real estate in (Bombay) is always
going to remain strong. And unless you get to a situation where the
infrastructure in the city dramatically improves due to which supply,
too, rises, I don’t see a big drop in prices.”
Keki Mistry, chief executive officer,
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), DNA, December 7, 2012
"For the Indian consumer to feel more comfortable... the
message that needs to be clearly communicated by policy makers
is that short-term pain will lead to long-term gain.”

Rashid Bilimoria, chief executive officer, consumer research firm Blu-Fin,
Mint, September 15, 2012

"The real barometer for success is having access to quality food,
education, health care, affordable housing and even something as essential as drinking water.
Inclusive growth in reality, not in concept, is the key success factor.”

Nusli Wadia, chairman, Wadia Group,
Business Standard, November 5, 2012

"The real justification for economic sanctions against Iran
is not that these will stop the country from going nuclear. It is
that they will, in time, help produce a Persian Spring, by creating
conditions for Iranians to overthrow the mullahs and
usher in genuine democracy.”

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, married
to a Parsi,The Economic Times,
October 10, 2012

"China is now preparing to
send their first woman into outer space. Which at first seems
like a feminist breakthrough until you realize she doesn’t want to go.”

Jay Leno, US television show host, The Economic Times, September 25, 2012

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