Attractive Quote by Manmohan Singh

When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so…

— Manmohan Singh

If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we were effectively…

— Cyril Shroff

Countries and world leaders have changed their perspective towards India. This is the biggest benefit.

— Narendra Modi

As India becomes more tax-compliant, government revenues will improve, and we will be able to serve the poor better. We can have better roads,…

— Piyush Goyal

“It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

“Even as I took a long, hard look at some of the obvious downsides (Q: 'What are the three things keeping India down? A:…

— Shobhaa De

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how…

— Pranab Mukherjee

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

— Nandan Nilekani

The thought process of India was more around its potential as a cost arbitrage. We always recognised the potential of India, but we were…

— John L. Flannery

“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such…

— Katherine Boo

“At the beginning of the eighteenth century, as the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy was 23…

— Shashi Tharoor

Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within…

— Peter Blair Henry