<div>“Fifa, I’m afraid, behaves like a mafia family”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Lord Triesman</strong></span>, former Football Association chairman, accusing football’s world governing body of a decades-long tradition of bribes, bungs and corruption<br /><br />“Younger people just aren’t interested in cars like they used to be”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Masanao Tomozoe</strong></span>, CEO of Toyota Motor Sales and Marketing Corp, on how teens worldwide are more <br />consumed by smartphones and computers than cars<br /><br />“Some had been identified as low performers by the external evaluation agency and the board. Some were evaluated to be low performers by senior management”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>N.R. Narayana Murthy</strong></span>, chairman, Infosys, at the 33rd annual general meeting (AGM) in Bangalore, playing down concerns <br />of the management exodus impacting the company’s growth <br /><br />“He is going to be a great prime minister because he believes in economic development. I love his focus on<br />infrastructure”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Alan Mulally</strong></span>, outgoing chief of US auto major Ford, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi<br /><br /><img width="150" height="149" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=02292bcb-994f-42ec-a09e-fa585044a6dc&groupId=222861&t=1403524986250" alt="" />“Ford is killing SEX!”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Elon Musk</strong></span>, CEO, Tesla Motors, after Ford Motors threatened to sue the electric car maker if it used the name ‘Model E’, which Ford has trademarked since 2000. Tesla wanted its three lines of vehicles (existing models S and X) to spell S-E-X <br /><br />“I do not say there will be a positive impact, but there will be zero negative impact”<br />— <span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Fabrice Bregier</strong></span>, chief executive of the plane-making division of Airbus Group, after Emirates scrapped a $16-billion order for 70 A350 aircraft<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 14-07-2014)</div>