The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but America used to produce MBAs by the millions, and you saw the German economy, until at… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the management skills of any country is inversely proportional to the number of MBAs. Germany produces no MBAs, but… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt. — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.' — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do. — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented,… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many… — Jairam Ramesh Copy Share Image
