Chanda Kochhar Quotes

The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.

For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

America's answer! : Production.

The spirit of manufacture has taken deep root among us, and its foundations are laid in too great expense to be abandoned.

Brazil must increase the value of its human capital by investing in knowledge and technology.

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

You know, this iPhone, as a matter of fact, the engine in here is made in America. And not only are the engines in here made in America, but engines are made in America and are exported. The glass on this phone is made in Kentucky. And so we've been working for years on doing more and more in the United States.

... a better government: more complete security of property; moderate taxes; a more permanent ... tenure of land ... the introduction of foreign arts ... and the introduction of foreign capital, which renders the increase of production no longer exclusively on the thrift or providence of the inhabitants themselves.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.