"We have been bullish on India for a long time."
Donald Peck,
Managing partner
Actis

"Never were our relations ever more exciting."
Tony Blair,
Prime Minister of Britain,
on India-UK relations

"We are delighted and impressed with the growth we have been able to achieve in this country. India is a key node in Accenture's global delivery network."
Mr Karl-Heinz Floether
Group Chief Executive (Technology and Delivery)
Accenture

"India is a rising economic influence of power in the international system. It's a great multiethnic democracy."
Condoleezza Rice
US Secretary of State

"...this is the right time to invest in India and we will be bold on the market here."
Jeffrey Immelt
CEO and Chairman
GE Worldwide

"Today, there is a greater willingness internationally to work with India -- and to build relationships of mutual benefit."
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India

"India could emerge as a global KPO hub as the business requires specialised knowledge in respective verticals and the country's engineering and technical institutes are geared to address the manpower demand."
CII Study
India in the new knowledge economy

"India's economy will expand by 8 per cent, even faster than the 6.9 per cent seen in 2004."
Institute of International Finance

"Disney's presence in India today is well poised for growth."
Andy Bird
President, Walt Disney International

"There is huge amount of optimism about India...the country is well positioned to accelerate from its present 6.5 per cent growth to around 8% in the near future."
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman
Planning Commission of India

"India is an important growth area for us. When most of the developing countries are seeing single-digit growth ... some of the Asian countries including India are showing double-digit growth."
Lawrence A Weinbach
Chairman
Unisys Corporation

"The joint marketing efforts will help us to combine Singapore as a urban destination, along with India's varied attractions like the Taj, the desert, mountains, and beaches."
Lim Neo Chian
Dy Chairman and Chief Executive
Singapore Tourism Board

"I believe India could be the fastest growing economy in the world one day. It would be foolish for Virgin not to embrace India."
Sir Richard Branson
Chairman
Virgin Atlantic Airways

"There is keen awareness of the need to continue to strengthen India's fiscal position, open the economy more fully to the world and remove the remaining domestic constraints on growth."
Rodrigo de Rato
Managing Director
IMF

"Indian companies are well run. Return on equity in India is higher than in countries such as the US, China and Japan."
Mr Alan Jacobs
Senior International Economist and Strategist
& Capital, Australia

"India is growing fast and everyone seems to want a piece of the action."
Martin Graham
Director of Market Services
London Stock Exchange

"The Indian banking system is now perhaps better than any other in Asia."
Stephen Roach
Chief Global Economist & Managing Director
Morgan Stanley

"We believe that India is at an inflexion point and will likely migrate to a 7 percent growth trend in this decade."
Chetan Ahya
Analyst
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter