Lakshmi Mittal Quotes

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

I'm an engineer.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.