<div>It (Nano) came to be termed the cheapest car by the public and, I am sorry to say, by ourselves. I think that is unfortunate”</div><div><strong>— Ratan Tata, former chairman, Tata Sons</strong></div><br /><div>“Unfortunately, there are a number of cases where investigating agencies and other authorities like Comptroller and Auditor General have overstepped their limits”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">P. Chidambaram</span>, finance minister, at a CBI conference</strong></div><br /><div>“Whatever the finance minister says should be considered as gospel (truth)”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">Vinod Rai</span>, former CAG, responding to the finance minister’s charge</strong></div><br /><div>“Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">John Chen</span>, interim chief executive, BlackBerry, in an open letter</strong></div><br /><table width="200" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="8" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="200" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="200" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=bd139db9-0f9b-48e3-be82-14de3079b367&groupId=520986&t=1386581965444" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td>Ratan Tata, former chairman, Tata Sons (Pic by Tribhuwan Sharma)</td></tr></tbody></table><div>“India is not a country for the weak-hearted”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">Ramesh Tainwala</span>, executive director & president, Asia-Pacific, Samsonite International , on doing business in India</strong></div><br /><div>“I’m too grown up to be nervous about an election”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">Sheila Dikshit</span>, chief minister of Delhi, on the Delhi assembly elections</strong></div><br /><div>“He had no long-term good intentions for the company or its shareholders or people inside the company”</div><div><strong>— <span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255);">Michael Dell</span>, chairman and CEO, Dell, on billionaire investor Carl Icahn who had opposed the $24.9-billion deal to take Dell private</strong></div><br /><div>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 30-12-2013)</div><br />