<div>We know that your experience was less than pleasant. We did not live up to the promises we made and for that we are really and truly sorry”</div><div><strong>— Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal</strong>, co-founders of Flipkart, in an email to customers, apologising for the glitches that marred the Big Billion Day sale</div><div> </div><div>“Twitter has become the central nervous system for public communication. It’s how everybody from the Pope to the president of Iran communicates”</div><div><strong>— Marc Andreessen</strong>, co-founder of Silicon Valley-based venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, in an interview </div><div> </div><div>“Hillary is going to run”</div><div><strong>— Warren Buffett</strong>, chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, making a prediction on Hillary Clinton running for the US presidency in 2016</div><div> </div><div>“As long as I am in Delhi, no power can split Maharashtra”</div><div><strong>— Narendra Modi</strong>, Prime Minister of India, dismissing opposition charges accusing him of having a hidden agenda to split Mumbai from Maharashtra</div><div> </div><div>“I wish we had not closed Twitter. It was wrong. Now we’re trying to restore a wrong perception (about Turkey)”</div><div><strong>— Volkar Bozkir</strong>, Turkey’s EU minister, accepting his country made a mistake in blocking access to Twitter on March 20, hours after Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who became the president on 28 August, vowed to close down the social media platform</div><div> </div><div>“I’d really like to see central banking as a ‘boring’ activity again. The desired state of affairs is when nobody discusses monetary policy in pubs”</div><div><strong>— Mojmir Hampl</strong>, deputy governor, Czech National Bank, on how central bankers have had enough of living in the limelight since the 2008 crisis</div><div> </div><div>“I’m in it to whip the pants off anybody competing on the same football field”</div><div><strong>— Bill Gross</strong>, the legendary investor, who recently left Pimco where he managed the world’s largest bond fund, on his plans to make the relatively small fund at Janus Capital a big hit</div><div> </div><div>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 03-11-2014)</div>