<div>“The way I look at it, it’s an investment in our people, in our company and in society. It is a win-win”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Howard Schultz</strong></span>, chairman and CEO, Starbucks, while announcing free tuition to all employees who work 20 hours a week or more<br /><br /><img width="200" height="200" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=7d43b735-4b8a-4bda-a107-d645b7015e08&groupId=222861&t=1404726307608" alt="" />“Markets expect more decisiveness in government policy formation as well as greater efficiency in implementation”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Raghuram Rajan</strong></span>, governor, Reserve Bank of India, in preface to RBI’s bi-yearly Financial Stability Report<br /><br />“India has the potential to become the largest economy in the world”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Sheryl Sandberg</strong></span>, chief operating officer, Facebook, at a conference<br /><br />“I think the dinner is unfortunate how much attention it’s gotten. I was late. I apologised to IPG at the time and in no way meant for it to be a slight to them”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Marissa Mayer</strong></span>, CEO of Yahoo, in an interview after facing criticism for arriving late to a dinner set up by Interpublic Group at the Cannes Lions festival<br /><br />“Our Mars mission is cheaper than the Hollywood movie ‘Gravity’”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Narendra Modi</strong></span>, PM, India, comparing the cost of sending an Indian rocket to space with the 2013 sci-fi thriller during the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-23 from Sriharikota<br /><br />“The lesson of the Juncker debacle is that David Cameron and the Conservative Party now pose a real and present danger to our economy”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Ed Miliband</strong></span>, leader of the Labour Party, on how Cameron’s failure to stop the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker to the European Union’s top job has taken the UK closer to exit, putting three million jobs and tens of thousands of businesses at risk<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 28-07-2014)</div>
