P. Chidambaram Quotes

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.