Quotes by Kumar Mangalam Birla - Page 1

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.
Kumar Mangalam Birla / Industrialist
Jobs
People
Skills
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The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.
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Important
Kind
People
Work Me Important
Factor
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I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.
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Great Talent
Rock Star
Talent
Author
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Our mission has always been to be leaders in each of our businesses, which is one, two, or three.
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Mission
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Jack Welch is someone who I have always admired. In India, Narayana Murthy is someone who I have great respect for.
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Great Respect
India
Admired
Respect Great Always
Jack
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The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits.
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Caring
Engaged
Indian
Philanthropic
Pursuits
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The IBC is a very deep reform. It is almost as deep a reform as GST or demonetisation. It changes the fundamental character of Indian business.
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Indian
Fundamental
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It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
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Frontiers
Good Always Your
Good Look New
Backyard
Businesses
Existing
Good Look Your
Good Idea
Opportunities
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The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.
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Composition
Divorced
Totally
Reached
Shape
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I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.
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Attempt
Reforms
Manufacture
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Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.
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Angry
Constructive
Dissent
Emotion
Fun
Involved
Temper
Lose
View
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The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.
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Authority
License
Omnipresent
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Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.
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Landscape
Businesses
Challenge
Conglomerate
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I think a leader has many roles to play. So, you know, one role is that of incubating talent; the other is that of being a strategist. It's a very interesting job I've got.
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Interesting
Leader
Strategist
Talent
Job
Role
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One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
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Blessed
Contemporary
India
Names
Household Name
Stands
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The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
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Bandwidth
Enjoyable
Environment
Guy
Important
Intellectual
Skills
Smart
Work Environment
Very
Determining
Still
Guys
Level
Well
Softer
Superior
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In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.
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Government
India
Partnership
Pride
Unleashed
Emerged
Result
Success Story
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Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
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Golden
Golden Rule
Heart
Passion
Successful
Be Happy
Close
Follow
Rule
The Golden Rule
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The young generation is willing to experiment more. Firstly, they are less motivated by money and compensation, unlike the previous two generations. Secondly, integrity and governance are very important issues for them.
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Compensation
Governance
Important Issues
Integrity
Motivated
Willing
Experiment
Firstly
Generation
Unlike
Previous
Secondly
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There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to
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Education
Believe
India
Two
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To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.
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Acquisition
Ego
Matter
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GST is a structural move in the right direction. It could take a few months to settle down. It is another one of the government's fundamental shifts which are all very well thought through... It will make us a much more robust economy.
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Economy
Months
Right Direction
Direction
Fundamental
Move
Settle
Shifts
Structural
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My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.
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Quality
Competitiveness
Contribution
Cost
Economy
Excellence
Taught
Thrive
Customer
Customer Service
Large
Prerequisite
Service
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I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.
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Fortunate
Traveled
Time Together People
Spend
Passed
Spent
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I never wanted to become a CA. My father was keen that I become one because he thought that was the right thing for me to do. I didn't have the courage to tell him that I don't want to do it. But now, I can't thank him more for having put me through it.
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Courage
Right Thing
Wanted
Having
Him
Tell
Thank
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I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But today, there is degree of caution around capitalism. We believe in compassionate capitalism. Growth for growth's sake can never be an end in itself.
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Capitalism
Caution
Compassionate
Growth
Questioning
Sake
Western
Western World
Society Today World
Concept
Degree
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Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.
Kumar Mangalam Birla / Industrialist
Leadership
Cadre
Empowered
Evolution
Growth
Organisation
Unique
Major
Major Role
Therefore
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