“To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.” DoeJobsShareIndiaElsewhereBusiness SuccessManufacturingBangaloreCall Center Author:Steven Rattner
“If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.” IfsJobsEnergyEffortAttentionMediaCostIndiaClimateClimate ChangeChinaFocusedEmissionsEpaChina And India Author:Fred Upton
“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.” IfsCountryJobsMovingSpeakUnderstandingLevelsQualitySupportGrowingTrumpSpeechUnderstoodIndiaDifficultyChinaCustomersNativeFrustrationSurprisingIntoleranceRepresentativesOther CountriesAccentsExceptionalEnglish SpeakingChina And India Author:Bob Hayes
“My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.” SometimesJobsFatherTasteIndiaAccompanyIrrigation Author:Imtiaz Ali
“President Bush went out touting his economic record in Ohio last week. Now this is a state that lost 225,000 jobs since Bush took office. You know, if Bush wants to tout his record, he should do it somewhere where the Bush economy has actually created jobs, like India, or Thailand, or China.” IfsKnowsWantShouldStatesJobsLastsLostPresidentEconomyRecordsWeekEconomicOfficeIndiaChinaPresident BushOhioThailand Author:Jay Leno
“Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.” ShouldJobsEmpowermentIndiaBasesMerit Author:Narendra Modi
“It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This will make India proud. We can achieve this through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us.” MeanChildrenSchoolJobsHouseEmpowermentIndiaTablesUnityDivisionElectricityToilets Author:Narendra Modi
“Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.” NeedsJobsResultsYouthDevelopmentMassIndiaProductionsMass Production Author:Narendra Modi
“Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.” WorldYearsJobsAmericaAsksOpportunityLettersThirdsIndiaRetardedPrecociousJob OpportunitiesOpportunity In America Author:Jean Houston
“Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.” PeopleIfsTodayJobsWaitingDegreesMajorsIndiaHotWaveHeatSweatingHeat WaveOutsourced Author:Jay Leno
“I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.” EndsTogetherJobsMotherPoorGrewGrew UpIndiaEducateOddsFamily TogetherOdds And Ends Author:Naveen Jain
“I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.” PeopleMeanHappensJobsMovingEnvironmentLosingIndiaRateEmploymentHandsomeUnemployedMacroeconomics Author:Manmohan Singh
“One of the great parts about my job is I travel the world. I was in India right before the [Narenda] Modi election, and I don't think he was the frontrunner until the end.” ThinkingWorldEndsJobsIndiaElectionTravel The World Author:Ken Moelis
“Most jobs are outsourced to the past, they aren't outsourced to India or Mexico or Pakistan or anywhere else.” JobsPastIndiaMexicoPakistanOutsourced Author:Thomas Friedman
“There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.” WorldHas BeensMadeSeemsRunningJobsTelevisionTerribleIndiaTragedyMiseryChinaDisasterCrueltyHopelessnessGood JobCabinetsAtrocitiesDarfur Author:Colin Dexter
“It's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one.” IfsWayFeelsJobsCitiesMovementIndiaGratefulDistanceNew WaysRetrospectFull Time Jobs Author:Karan Mahajan
“I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.” JobsFeltEnjoyAbilityPercentIndiaModelingUtilizing Author:Freida Pinto
“We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.” KnowsWorldChildrenJobsEducationIndiaOur ChildrenChinaGood JobIndiana Author:Barack Obama
“There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indonesia or Brazil unless all developed countries are making a major effort. It will still be a big job to get them in, even if we are all making the effort. But our making the effort is a necessary condition.” IfsStillsCountryBigsActionJobsCertainEffortResponsibilityConditionsMajorsIndiaChinaChineseGasIndonesiaReducingEmissionsBrazilGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesDeveloped Country Author:Ross Garnaut
“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
“President Obama was in India yesterday visiting our jobs. Tomorrow he goes to China to visit our money.” JobsPresidentTomorrowIndiaChinaYesterdayPresident ObamaVisiting Author:Jay Leno
“And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.” ThinkingWorldNeedsIdeasJobsYoungNextInspiringWonderCuttingGenerationsIndiaInnovationWaveEdgesChinaCutting EdgeAlways ThinkingAmerican Jobs Author:Barack Obama