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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

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Manmohan Singh
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: September 26
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I believe that without looking at each other as rivals or as competitors, in a democratic India, operating in the framework of an open economy, an open society has, I think, some significance for developing countries, not only in Asia but outside Asia.
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As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
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The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.
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With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance.
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Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.
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If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.
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When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.
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We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
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I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.
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The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.
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The United States and India can work together.
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Our vision is not just of economic growth, but also of a growth which would improve the life of the common man.
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