Kumar Mangalam Birla Quotes

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

We get talent and scale from mergers.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

2012 was a good year for the Mahindra Group, as we moved ahead by venturing into new geographies and businesses.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.

You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth.

I am so proud of the growth of Dylan's Candy Bar into two more flagship stores: Union Square in New York City and Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and two airport stores: JFK and Detroit.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you're exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.