Adi Godrej Quotes

Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don't think there's any other place in the world that can match it.

We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

The world over, it was believed that, down the line, India will emerge as a major economy along with U.S. and China.

China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years” than gross domestic product.

I believe that India's long-term growth story is strong, and foreign investors are keen to be a part of it.

America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

Relative to other economies in the world, India has a good feel to it.

The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

Predicting and responding to the global economy will be the biggest challenge.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be demographics in the developed world.

If you want your country to be competitive in the 21st century economy, a big financial sector is fundamentally bad news.

GDP has effectively become a proxy for national success or failure. It has the power to decide elections, overthrow governments, and launch popular movements.

… of the world’s nearly 200 economies, only 35 have reached developed status and stayed there. The rest are still emerging, and many have been emerging forever.

In 10 years, ... you're going to see the most valuable economy in the world -- the largest economy in the world -- is going to be a country run by communists. The Chinese seem to be very good at capitalism. And this is going to have fundamental problems and present an identity crisis for the United States. Because for a long time, free markets coincided with liberties such as free speech, free press, free religion. And all of a sudden, this equation is going to be decoupled. And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies. And this is a very unique thing in the American experience. And this is why it's very important to think of American capitalism as an operating system and not as an ideology. Because when you think about it as an ideology, you can have good politics make for very, very bad policy. That market outcomes and democratic voices and battles for votes can end up stifling progress.

When Indian economy was growing at the rate of 8 to 9 percent, I think everybody was quite happy. Even when there were defects in our policies, they were overlooked, and when the economy slows down, people try to find fault and excuses.

Without productivity gains, any growth in GDP is exactly offset by population growth, and the average income stays the same.

The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.

From 1950 to 2000, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5 percent. That generated a massive gain in real GDP per person from $16,000 to over $50,000. A huge win for the middle class.

If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.