<div>If you keep belching at the dinner table, you’ll be eating in the kitchen”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Warren Buffett</strong></span>, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway, on his decision to not vote on an equity compensation plan for executives of Coca-Cola, even though he thought the plan was excessive<br /><br />“If I lose, my kettle is ready. I will go back and sell tea”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Narendra Modi</strong></span>, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, in response to a question often raised by Congressmen on his future if he happens to lose the general elections<br /><br />“This monitoring behaviour of the United States is within expectations”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Ren Zhengfei</strong></span>, founder and CEO, Huawei, on learning that the US National Security Agency was spying on his company<br /><br />“We want to invest in the partners that are really doing the right thing with the workforce”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Mark Parker</strong></span>, CEO, Nike, on shifting the company’s production within China after a major strike at a supplier’s factory<br /><br />“No company or individual is too big to jail”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Eric H. Holder Jr</strong></span>, attorney general, US, on the Justice Department preparing criminal charges against two of Europe’s largest banks <br />— Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas<br /><br /><img width="200" height="200" align="right" src="/image/image_gallery?uuid=20e212ee-c0a1-47fa-8678-a229c3a80108&groupId=222861&t=1399890304383" alt="" />“I have done more heavy lifting in the last 12 months than RBI”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>P. Chidambaram</strong></span>, finance minister, taking credit for restoring calm in India’s financial markets last year<br /><br />“The Fed may get more raucous about what to do next as tapering draws to a close”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Alan Blinder</strong></span>, an economics professor at Princeton University and a former vice-chairman of the central bank, at a conference in Boston<br /><br />“I am pretty concerned about a Modi-run government. The indications that it will be a fairly bullying government are already there”<br />—<span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><strong>Salman Rushdie</strong></span>, author, at a conference<br /><br />(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 02-06-2014)</div>
