<div>We do not believe this should be East vs West, Russia vs the United States. This is not Rocky IV”</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>John Kerry</strong></span>, secretary of state, US, on the impact of Russia-Ukraine tensions on Russia-US relations</div><div> </div><div>“I stopped using Mt Gox this summer when it started to look like roach motel (a roach-bait device) ”</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Tyler Winklevoss</strong></span>, founder, Winklevoss Capital, and one half of the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame</div><div><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span></div><table width="200" border="0" align="right" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6"><tbody><tr><td><img src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=505d9642-bb6f-41eb-8e37-dd48f4157c8e&groupId=222861&t=1395141548244" width="200" height="200" align="middle" alt="" /></td></tr><tr><td>Ginni Rometty</td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="line-height: 1.4;">“There’s no ‘For Sale’ sign up on the company” </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Bill Barney</strong></span>, CEO, Reliance Globalcom, clarifying to a news agency that if need be they will go to the capital markets to raise money</div><div> </div><div>“We’re pretty sure that any information that’s inside of Google is safe from the government’s prying eyes, including the US government’s”</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Carl Schmidt</strong></span>, executive chairman, Google, at a summit</div><div> </div><div>“Get out of our way”</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Richard Branson</strong></span>, founder, Virgin Group, to those who deny climate change, in a blog</div><div> </div><div>“There is only good management and bad management. Traditional versus modern is, in my view, not important” </div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Rahul Bajaj</strong></span>, non-executive chairman, Bajaj Auto, on traditional and modern business practices, to a magazine</div><div> </div><div>“Our performance did not meet our expectations”</div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Ginni Rometty</strong></span>, chief executive officer, IBM, on the firm’s 2013 results, in a letter to investors</div><div> </div><div>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 07-04-2014)</div><div> </div><div> </div>
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