“The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.” CompanyIndiaProductionsEastMonopolyOpium Author:Robert Trout
“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.” LongParentActingCompanyCareersPlayerFeetLandStageIndiaEnglandPerformingCourtesyUp And Down Author:Felicity Kendal
“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.” ShouldMayShowsLastsCompanyEffectsIndiaSecureServantDiamondCrownsAlarmsRetrospectBribeImpunityPlunderProsecution Author:Horace Walpole
“When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.” TwoCompanySpecialNormalIndiaIndianFirmGermanySomething Special Author:Tulsi Tanti
“Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.” BigsTodaySpiritGrowthBornCompanyTechnologyAliveAdventureIndiaInnovationShiningPerseveranceDuesYesterdayEnterpriseManifestEnginesInformation TechnologyHardworkBeaconsBig CompaniesExponential Growth Author:Narendra Modi
“By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.” GivingOpportunityCompanyProductsCostIndiaInnovationManufacturingInvitingMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.” IfsWorldTryingMeanUseGoalCompanyEventsEconomicsIndiaWestInvestingChinaReleaseDevelopingAtmosphereCarbonAccumulationGreenhousesChina And India Author:Gregg Easterbrook
“There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.” MeanCountryStoriesCompanyNewsIndiaBackgroundsGermanyGood NewsInnovative Author:David Livermore
“You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.” PeopleIfsWorldWayYearsAsksCompanyLuckyIndiaBrilliantIncentives Author:Peter Diamandis
“Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.” CountryPastTurnsResponsibilityCompanyAcceptingSunLonelyIndiaHotUnionsPlantWorkersAffairHungerStrikesDisasterProtestTexasChemicalsTruckRefusalJoiningWilsonGreetingsDianaConspiratorsHunger Strike Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.” WorldHumansStatesHelpingUnitedCompanyTechnologyUnited StatesInformationRevolutionResourcesScientistIndiaAccessPoolEfficientHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologyOutsourcing Author:Manmohan Singh
“We definitely have a lot of talent in India for football. It is great to see football's growing popularity and I really hope a larger number of corporate companies invest in the game so that one day we have a great team to boast about.” GamesNumbersCompanyGrowingTeamTalentFootballOne DayIndiaCorporatePopularityBoastGreat Team Author:Suresh Raina
“I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.” ThinkingWorldCompanyModernApproachIndiaEastPennies Author:Steven Knight
“East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.” WorldWantedChristianFeltCompanyHugeCivilizationIndiaEastAround The WorldImpetusMultinationals Author:Steven Knight
“East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?” PeopleEvilCompanyOrganizationIndiaProfitEastDrivenFamiliar Author:Steven Knight
“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.” PeopleMayHas BeensCultureFightingCompanyMillionsProgressLandHugeBattleCostAreasIndiaWesternNotionDrivenForestsConsumersFar AwayInfrastructureCivilisationLivelihoodMiningDamsRural AreasConsumer Culture Author:Arundhati Roy
“I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we just look at India as a source of our talent. But, one thing we know... first or second generation or new immigrants or children of immigrants have started about 40% of the Fortune 500 companies. For me it's always been a really very important issue that I want America to be open to the most energetic and talented people from around the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantFirstsLooksChildrenImportantAmericaCompanyIssuesGenerationsOne ThingTalentSourceIndiaFortuneChinaImmigrationAround The WorldRadicalImmigrantsEnergeticImportant IssuesMuslim World Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think people will walk into the Starbucks store and overnight recognize the significant difference between what Starbucks represents day-in and day-out and all the other coffee companies that have been serving coffee in India for so many years.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensDifferencesWalksCompanyIndiaStoresCoffeeSignificantServingStarbucks Author:Howard Schultz
“I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.” WantDealsCompanyEuropeIndiaTradeMissionsDrivingJapanPushingSmallestEntrepreneurialFree TradeCompleting Author:David Cameron
“I've never believed protectionism of that kind will lead us anywhere. I think you can have certain specific rules for engaging with India.. for example, not allowing mineral resources to be taken out of the country.. but there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that when you open an economy you should do it in totality. Foreign investment adds a sense of competition; we should see this as a wake-up call to modernise and upgrade. Companies that do not will undoubtedly die.” ThinkingShouldMindKindCountryCertainDiesCompanyEconomyTakenDoubtExampleResourcesEconomicsIndiaWake UpAddCompetitionInvestmentAllowingEngagingTotalityMineralsWake Up CallProtectionismMineral Resources Author:Ratan Tata
“I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.” ThinkingSelfSpiritDesireGrowthCompanyEconomyHappenedGroupsMastersIndustryIndiaIndependentIndependenceEntrepreneurInvestmentDrivenErasIndianSufficientContributionHotelSteelEntrepreneurialSelf SufficientTextilesEntrepreneurial SpiritTata Author:Ratan Tata
“The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.” JobsMovingLawCompanyRight NowCostTaxesOfficeIndiaChinaPermitFactoriesDeductions Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.” CountryAbleJobsPayCompanyHigherIndiaCompetitionWorkersChinaWagesAmerican WorkersChina And India Author:Andy Stern
“If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'” IfsWould BeThreeCompanyPicksIndiaMy FavoriteMagazinesSiliconSmithsonian Author:Padmasree Warrior
“Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?” TryingHeartBodyTurnsNationsDarkCompanyAreasIndiaCreamCosmeticsParts Of The Body Author:Shekhar Kapur