<div>At Google, the biggest mistake I (have) made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon”<br />— <strong>Eric Schmidt, </strong>executive chairman, Google<br /><br />“... we are getting a person imposed from above to be an MP, who has not done grassroots work, not been around, who a particular party is trying to parachute here.”<br />— <strong>Mohandas Pai,</strong> former CFO of Infosys, on the possibility of Nandan Nilekani, former CEO of Infosys, fighting Lok Sabha elections from Bangalore on a Congress ticket<br /><br />“We took the resolute measure of removing the factionalists lurking in the Party”<br />— <strong>Kim Jong Un,</strong> dictator of North Korea, on the execution of his uncle and advisor Jang Song Thaek<br /><br />“The richest man in the world, who is among the most powerful people in technology, has no ego”<br />— <strong>Gurdeep Singh Pall,</strong> global head, Skype, referring to Bill Gates<br /><br /> </div><table width="150" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" border="0" align="right"><tbody><tr><td><img width="150" vspace="2" hspace="2" height="150" align="middle" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=12322acb-5593-44bf-80e7-3301347e45d9&groupId=520986&t=1389004780161" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><strong>Jamie Dimon</strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div>“We’ve been doing this (for) 200 years. We’re not going to stop and start every time the company has a problem”<br />— <strong>Jamie Dimon, </strong>CEO, JPMorgan Chase. The bank has run into trouble with US federal regulators<br /><br />“We can’t afford any improvements until you learn to save money and start making money”<br />— <strong>Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, </strong>at a meeting with the managers of ArcelorMittal Temirtau plant in Kazakhstan<br /><br />“If militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of horcrux, representing the darkest parts of that nation’s soul”<br />— <strong>Liu Xiaoming,</strong> Chinese ambassador to the UK, in an article. The shrine is dedicated to Japanese soldiers who lost their lives in various wars<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 27-01-2014)<br /> </div>