Smart Quotes

 The US has been outsourcing jobs for over a 100 years, so why all this noise (now)?  

Joseph Quinlan of Bank of America Capital Management, about the outsourcing backlash in The Times of India.

Development economics is not charity; it is about doing good and at the same time ensuring that the company is profitable.  

Udaia Kumar, managing director, SHARE Microfin, a micro-finance institution in Business Today.

 The group must take risks. Otherwise, it stands still in time.  

Ratan Tata, on risk-taking
in Business Today

 The image and perception of India have been fundamentally shifted by the IT story. But is the IT sector a metaphor for where India is going or is it an exception?  

Management and strategy guru Micheal Porter,
in Fortune India

 We Italians went to China early, we brought them our methods, we sold them our machinery - now it's like having a grown-up child who doesn't need you anymore.  

Beppe Pisani, president of textile producer Serikos,
in BusinessWeek.