Inspiring Quotes by Indian Entrepreneurs
The last few years have seen a surge in the number of Indian entrepreneurs and startup. Zomato, Swiggy, and other brands have become commonplace in our lives. The internet and online media era required a new generation of firms and brands to respond to the needs and needs of this tech-aware and digital audience, and several Indian entrepreneurs have done so.The statements from Indian entrepreneurs and start-up founders provide insight into the concept of today’s new generation enterprises.
- “Never hire someone to do initial sales, in fact you must acquire your first 100 customers yourself.” – Shashank, Practo
- “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can” – Ratan Tata
- “Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.” – Swami Vivekananda
- “Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.” – Chanakya
- “Don’t be a jerk! Even if you are brilliant, don’t be a brilliant jerk.”- Girish Mathrubootha, Founder of Freshworks
- “There is no secret ingredient. To make something special you just have to believe its special.” – Rahul Yadav, Founder of Housing
- “The core of any business is to earn money. You have not done your job well until you find a stranger who is willing to open his/her wallet to give you money for the service/products that you are offering.” – Sachin and Binny Bansal, Flipkart
- “Scale is important for a startup. Think big, but take one day at a time.” – Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal
- “If you fully accept the worst that can ever happen in your journey, fear won’t ever be an obstacle in starting-up.” – Kunal Shah, FreeCharge
- “It is extremely important to build something that a 100 people absolutely love using rather than make something that a 1000 people would just, kind of, like.” – Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms
- “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” R. Narayana Murthy, Co-founder of Infosys
- “It’s a long long road. Sometimes all you need are people who pat your back and say, carry on. Thank you to everyone who encourages.”- Sharaddha Sharma, Founder of Yourstory
- “The fundamental model of our business is that in mature markets we should make profits and they shouldn’t need any more outside money to grow.”- Depinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato
- “Today I see a billion people as a billion potential consumers, an opportunity to generate value for them and to make a return for myself”- Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Reliance
- “Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.”- Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro
- “Building predictability on top of market place economy is how new age businesses will get built. Super excited”- Ritesh Agarwal, Founder of OYO
- “If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries
- “The trade market is the place with the least scope for emotions, especially of fear and greed.”- Rachit Chawla, Co-Founder of Finway Capital
- “Human capital is the most precious of all forms of capital available”- Ajay Ramasubramaniam, Ryerson Futures Inc.
- “Whether ecommerce companies make money or not, these logistics companies make revenue which is guaranteed for them by ecommerce transactions.”- Arvind Singhal, MD of Technopak
- “It is important to achieve our goals, but not at any cost.”- Mukesh Ambani, CEO & Chairman of Reliance,
- “However big or small, make it a good business, make it a clean business, make it a business you are very proud of.”- Deep Kalra, founder of MakeMyTrip
- “I don’t believe in taking right decisions, I take decisions and make them right.” – Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Group
- “We must distinguish between plan and purpose. Plan is a tool to fulfil the purpose. If you have an inclusive, burning purpose in your heart, a dozen plans will come up. As business leadership becomes more significant, they must move from profit to purpose.” – Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation
- “Whether ecommerce companies make money or not, these logistics companies make revenue which is guaranteed for them by ecommerce transactions.” – Arvind Singhal, MD of Technopak
- “If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi (Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo)
- “We must distinguish between plan and purpose. Plan is a tool to fulfil the purpose. If you have an inclusive, burning purpose in your heart, a dozen plans will come up. As business leadership becomes more significant, they must move from profit to purpose.” – Sadhguru, Founder of Isha Foundation
- “Value for many, value for money is our company’s business objective from the start.” – Dr RS Sodhi, Managing Director, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL)
- “The best way to go ahead in business is to create a value proposition that is unbeatable, and not to say that someone needs to be able to help me for me to do that.” – Dr Pawan Goenka, Former Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
- “When hiring, it’s more about the energy the person leaves behind — more than the skillsets actually. I’ve spent 30 minutes with this guy, at the end of the 30 minutes, am I happy?” – Nithin Kamath, Founder and CEO, Zerodha
