Ajay Piramal Quotes

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

If it doesn’t make economic sense, it doesn’t happen

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

Chasing revenues that don't have good earnings doesn't help us or shareholders one lick.