Smart Quotes

 Companies should not print their annual balance- sheets. What are these annual reports and stock markets? They are like casinos. Do you think quarterly reports show the real worth of a company?

Deepak Chopra, new-age guru, in Fortune India

 It (price recovery in IT) is like virginity. Once you lose it, you lose it.

John Kirincich, director in charge of IT at German chemical company Celanese, in BusinessWeek

 India should not get carried away by the feel-good factor that is in the air and rather use the ideal conditions that exist today to accelerate reforms.

Claude Smadja, president, Smadja Associates, Switzerland, in Fortune India

 As long as people are feeling better off and not many are feeling worse off, we have a sustainable feel-good factor.

Subir Gokarn, chief economist, Crisil, in India Today

 We can bash the US for its unsustainable economic policies. But it is the economy that is pulling the world economy along, and I don't see where else this would come from.

Laura Tyson, dean, London Business School in The Wall Street Journal

 People can go to India and spend more money and get less done because they don't know how things are done there.

Jerry Greenberg, co-chief executive of Sapient Corp in BusinessWeek

 In economic terms, China is coming to occupy the same space in emerging markets that the US occupies in the larger world.

Ruchir Sharma, co-head of global emerging markets, Morgan Stanley, in Newsweek