Chanda Kochhar Quotes

A country’s Internet infrastructure, just like it’s physical infrastructure, is essential to its economic competition and growth.

Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Our demographic dividend must get the digital strength.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Africa is the future.

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

It was government investment that led to the creation of the Internet.

Not only the wealth; but the independence and security of a Country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures.

If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or its president, or Western investment, but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in knowledge and science and the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.