<div>I have told your boss I think he should stop twittering”<br /><strong>Michael Bloomberg,</strong> to a New York Post reporter. The newspaper is part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire<br /><br />“You and I may agree if some chai paani has to be given, to get over it, but the younger generation will not tolerate it anymore”<br /><strong>Vinod Rai,</strong> former comptroller and auditor general of India, in an interview<br /><br />“I am too grown up to be nervous about an election”<br /><strong>Sheila Dikshit,</strong> chief minister of Delhi, prior to the state assembly elections in which her party was routed<br /><br />“People around the world are confused. They are bemused. But they are not amused by what’s happening”<br /><strong>Christine Lagarde, </strong>head of the IMF, on the US government shutdown<br /> </div><table width="200" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="8" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="200" height="200" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=34598646-24d0-4151-b4c0-edb140180d4e&groupId=520986&t=1387795819722" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td>Jairam Ramesh</td></tr></tbody></table><div>“When I was growing up, Bill Gates was my hero”<br /><strong>Mark Zuckerberg, </strong>founder of Facebook<br /><br />“Poverty is just a state of mind”<br /><strong>Rahul Gandhi, </strong>vice-president, Congress<br /><br />“I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners... ”<br /><strong>Steve Wozniak,</strong> co-founder, Apple<br /><br />“You must unleash the animal spirits, but do so in a manner that the animals don’t become man-eaters” <br /><strong>Jairam Ramesh, </strong>rural development minister, on excessive emphasis on economic growth<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 13-01-2014)</div>