Peter Hargreaves Quotes

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company's culture and propel you forward.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn't about how many times you yell, 'You're fired,' but instead, how many times you say, 'You're hired.'

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.

Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.