<div>“By the end of the decade, latest, we will drive more revenue from new cloud business than software licenses”</div><div><strong>—Luka Mucic</strong>, chief financial officer, SAP, at an event promoting the firm’s cloud strategy</div><div> </div><div>“Relations between India and America should not be seen within the limits of just Delhi and Washington. It’s a much larger sphere. Democracy is in our DNA”</div><div><strong>— Narendra Modi</strong>, prime minister, in an interview to a television channel</div><div> </div><div>“I remain very confident, despite the change in government, that if we remain firmly on the path, we will get back to 8 per cent growth in about 2-3 years”</div><div><strong>— P. Chidambaram</strong>, former finance minister, at an event</div><div> </div><div><img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=fa6fb90c-a36b-4f89-846f-4887be63079f&groupId=222861&t=1411996486958" width="150" height="150" align="right" alt="" />“Why are Japanese officials and the Chinese president visiting India? Because they want land in the country to be reserved for them. That is what the Modi government is doing”</div><div><strong>— Medha Patkar</strong>, activist, during a protest march against the Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill, 2014</div><div> </div><div>“The model of alliances is fractured. See what happened to Qantas, Emirates and British Airways”</div><div><strong>— James Hogan</strong>, CEO, Etihad, dismissing the global airline alliances pursued by some rivals, while supporting the growth of investment in equity stakes and codeshare deals</div><div> </div><div>“Inflation is coming down. Macro indicators are improving but still have some way to go before we can declare that we are out of the woods”</div><div><strong>— Raghuram Rajan</strong>, governor, Reserve Bank of India, at a pre-policy meeting with economists</div><div> </div><div><div>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 20-10-2014)</div></div>
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