Kumar Mangalam Birla Quotes

In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

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.

In order to generate extraordinary profits, you must have a focus that is beyond profits. You need to focus on how you serve your clients.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse. We must maintain a value proposition to our customers as well as differentiate the Starbucks Experience. That is the key.

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

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

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.