Adi Godrej Quotes

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.

The Dabo people are consumer marketing geniuses. This is exactly why we acquired them.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I'm not an Internet guy - I'm a business guy.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

I think my sister and I just focus on working hard. We started off working with Wal-Mart on our first clothing line as an extension of our personal brand when we were 12, and we got to learn about being aware of what was in the market and what wasn't.

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

My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

One thing I learned from all my years in business is you really have to work with the experts: you can launch something yourself, but unless you have the expertise and the marketing strategies and machinery behind you, you'll never be successful.

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

As an entrepreneur, I am focused on my business.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

I'm not stupid, and the people around me aren't stupid. You can't ignore the economic realities of the ways that business is run and the way clients think.

Advertising is full of great thinkers. This is a powerful industry and does a lot more than we take credit for.

People think about their business instead of their products.