M. S. Swaminathan Quotes

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Protect the consumer by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table.

Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

It was good for the Japanese. It was good for the Russians, and it was good for me.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

It's much better to have a good agreement than a quick agreement.

When we aid a country, we must have a minimum in return.

We always find that taking a fairly hard-line position means our membership gets the best deal possible.

If independence is not at stake then I thing it right to consider such an offer.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.