Baba Kalyani Quotes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting business. My sense is that our clones and copycats are very manual. If they make it work, then congratulations to them!

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I never expect business to be easy.

I love Gateway, and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure the company can grow and prosper in this challenging environment.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.