David Milne Quotes

We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Since merchandise creativity is hampered by the reluctance of manufacturers to do special things for an individual store, it might be well to increase purchases in foreign markets more able to accept innovative ideas.

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

Media Asia has great partners in China, Japan and Hollywood.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.

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

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.