SMART QUOTES

 The US has a strong sense of fairness and equity, and when we have opened our market on the average tariff of 2 per cent, another large country (India) keeping its market closed is not fair. I think the remedy is to gradually open the markets.  

Former US trade representative Carla Hills arguing for a level playing field in The Business Line

For a long time customers were telling us what we should do. But now they want us to tell them what they should be doing.  

S Gopalakrishnan, COO, Infosys, in The Business World

 We are most concerned about the size of the fiscal deficit, both at the central and the state government levels, and the loss-making electricity sector.  

Paul A Coughlin, MD of international rating agency (S&P), expressing concerns about India, in The Business Line.

 The US economy accounted for 96 per cent of the cumulative increase in world GDP between 1995 and 2002. Such an unbalanced global economy is not sustainable....This is the time when China and India can step up on the supply side of the global economy.  

Stephen S Roach, chief economist, Morgan Stanley, in Business Today.

 What GE seems to have a genius for is picking the right person for the right time for more than 100 years.  

Jim Collins, business researcher and author of Good to Great, in Fortune.

 Not all Germans believe in God. But they all believe in the Bundesbank.  

Former French finance minister and European Commission president Jacques Delors, commenting on the might of the German central bank in The Financial Times.