Piyush Goyal Quotes
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When you give a good offer, people take it.
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When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.
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The 100 gigawatt target for solar should not be a constraint. India won't stop at 100 GW.
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I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.
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You can't sell thermal power without the competitive bidding.
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Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.
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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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If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.
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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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Energy is not a political issue for the Modi government. It is our commitment to provide electricity to every household of the country.
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I am an optimist.
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The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.
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Cost-plus is an inefficient way to do things.
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Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies.
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Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
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We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have done work on it. Some of them have done offshore wind projects. So we're looking at learning from the best from all across the world. My approach is to get the best out of each one.
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We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.
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Indians have become very demanding. Gone are the days where you could get away with power outages.
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I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.
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Power for all includes people who are interested in getting a connection. It cannot be for people who don't want the connection. Having said that, I am confident everybody will apply for power once they are sure that they will not be short-charged.
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We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
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I can't tell the people of India that we'll burden you with high costs because the West has polluted the world, now India will pay for it. Not acceptable to us.
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The Gujarat government knows what's in the interest of consumers. When they plan, they ensure they can save every single rupee or earn every single rupee for the state government and bring power at lowest cost to the consumer. They are tightfisted in their approach.
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Prime Minister Modi keeps challenging the system to keep performing better and better. He sets aggressive targets, and the whole system has to act.