Baba Kalyani Quotes

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

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

So when they come around and say they want to do our stuff in America, it's compliment really.

I tell foreign companies that come here... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country has the potential to do so much business in the surrounding countries.'

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.

We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.

Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Our whole future depends on the railways