Andrew Tan Quotes

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

VW's future is increasingly being decided in China, Russia, India, the Americas and Southeast Asia. This is where we will generate most of our growth in future.

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

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.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong.

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

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.

In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

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