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Last Updated : Jan 26 2013 | 1:40 AM IST
 This bubble could run for a while, but we have seen all of them end in tears. There is no reason to believe this will be different.  

Stephen Brown, head of research at Kim Eng Securities in Hong Kong, in BusinessWeek on the current boom in China.

 I don't buy that India is the next big thing. The obstacles to success are enormous.  

Edmund Harris, who manages about $160 million in two Asian funds for Guinness Atkinson Asset Management LLC, in Business Week

 There is a massive shift in wealth from West to East, and unless we make major structural changes, it will have damaging consequences for Europe.  

Sir Martin Sorrell, chairman, WPP Group, in The Times of India.

 China still gets a lot more respect than India, but it is a matter of time before that changed.  

C K Prahalad, management guru, in The Financial Express.

 India is a perplexing paradox that is highly representative of the world.  

Bill Clinton, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

 Leverage can be a vulnerability once it ceases to be sustainable.  

Sir Andrew Large, deputy governor, Bank of England, on British consumer debt in BusinessWeek.

 Overseas employment has built more homes than all our housing programmes put together.  

Former Philippines labour minister Blas Ople on the positive impact of handsome remittances by Filipinos who work in foreign countries

  

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First Published: Feb 02 2004 | 12:00 AM IST

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