Chanda Kochhar Quotes

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.

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.

Coal is tied to steel jobs, trucking jobs, and manufacturing jobs.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

... 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.

America's answer! : Production.

There are three thing which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

The future of a Nation will be shaped by its ability to produce planes, cars, electronics ... not by how slick its financial markets can shuffle paper assets around.

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

The whole legislation of Great Britain, on this subject, has been directed to the one great object of preventing the people of her colonies, and those of independent nations, from obtaining the machinery necessary to enable them to combine their exertions for the purpose of obtaining cloth or iron, and thus compelling them to bring to her their raw materials, that she might convert them into the forms that fitted them for consumption, and then return to the producers a portion of them, burdened with great cost for transportation, and heavy charges for the work of conversion.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

Steel is needed everywhere.

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.

Free trade creates jobs and prosperity in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam or the airport at Schiphol.

Texas is made for trade.

China's continued growth and rising household income are creating opportunities for lower-income economies in low-cost manufacturing.

Developing the locally-run industry is very important in increasing the production of consumer goods.

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.

America's infrastructure was once the envy of the world.

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.