Piyush Goyal Quotes
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I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.
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Reaping political dividends out of tragedies is deeply engrained in the Congress' DNA.
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Western countries have gone through their development cycle and enjoyed the fruits of ruining the environment over many years and are now giving us homilies and pontificating on responsibilities to the environment. I think they need to look inward.
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People of India deserve to be complimented for making the 2014 elections a referendum on the misrule of the Congress-led UPA and demonstrating their faith in a proven new leadership.
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PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team, including states, parties, all schools of thought, all sections of society.
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I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.
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Centrally, I cannot interfere in states.
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Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.
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In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.
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You can fool the people once, twice, but you can't fool them all the time. You should tell them honestly what you can do for them.
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The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
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I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.
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With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.
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Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.
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Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
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It's equal opportunity for all, and we don't play favourites.
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Our pollution out of carbon emissions is still very, very low compared to the world.
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I don't get carried away by any praise; I know I have miles to go.
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India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.
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I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.
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Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.
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I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.
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You can't sell thermal power without the competitive bidding.
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If you are moving the informal economy into the formal economy, and if the transactions which for years were never reported as part of GDP are now transacted through banking channels, it will only add to the GDP, not reduce the GDP.