Ajay Piramal Quotes

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

New products, new markets, new investors, and new ways of doing things are the lifeblood of growth. And while each innovation carries potential risk, businesses that don't innovate will eventually diminish.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.