Caprice Bourret Quotes

The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

I'm sort of a straight shooter.

Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.

Globalization has made multinationals more accountable, and accountable to whomever has the highest standards, rather than the lowest ones.

We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

I'm a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don't have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I'm going to tell you the truth, I'm going to address the elephant in the room, and we'll all move forward.

I am one of those people that if you are going to say something, just say it. I take it on the chin.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

What works in the States doesn't easily translate to the Korean market.

Having discussions over the years is normal, as I am someone who is very direct and always speaks the truth.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

I like trying to keep as honest and straightforward of a point of view in our kitchen as possible.

I am very straightforward. If I have something to communicate about dance steps, I just go up to the actor and tell them my thoughts. Language is never a problem.

I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.

I am just forthcoming - completely blunt and honest.

Business keeps luring me back to China.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

I like to be straightforward with whatever I'm doing, whether it's basketball, whether it's meeting someone, whatever it is.