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176 Industrialist Quotes

I quite frankly enjoy the touch and feel of a store, so I am a big bookshop person. Or, I go to an electronics store; Best Buy and Croma are places I could spend a lot of time in.

Am Best Big Buy
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I probably have everything that Apple has made and everything Bose has made; I am very loyal to certain brands.

Am Apple Brands Certain
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The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.

Any Expensive Manufacturing Most
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I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Blessed Companies Each Executive
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The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

Being Businesses Certain Early
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India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

Basis Come Doing India
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I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.

Am Children Connected Family
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My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

Because Change Children Come
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When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Activities Hinder Human Long
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I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.
Am Earn Growth I Am
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I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

Am Company Favour Government
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I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.

About Always Am Amount
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Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

Continue Doing Flying Hope
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There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.

Attention Competitive Drive Engineering
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New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

Creativity Embody Experience Innovation
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If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Am Fail Founder Going
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A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Comfort Deal Founder Give
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As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Become Becomes Everybody Grow
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
Early Early Work Formula Hard
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Company Getting Going Hour
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
Around Like Manure Money
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Earth Inherit Meek Mineral
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

Achieve Any Being Business
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

Animal Captures Like Oil
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Able Fortune His Hundred
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I buy when other people are selling.
Buy Other People Selling
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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Deserves Employees Employer Generally
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Ages Books Chief Esteem
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Bank Million Owe Problem
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Change Could Enemy Experience
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

About Business Individual Know
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Failure Give Gladly Hate
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Actually Count Man Money
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Bringing Business Dull Element
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Billion Billion Dollars Count Dollars
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Almost Almost Anything Anything Better
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My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Early Early Work Formula Late
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

About Bring Cannot Discouraging
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You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.
Brotherhood Cannot Class Encouraging
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

Discussing Relish Subject Wealth
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Ability Carry Company Control
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I can afford to say what I wish.

Afford I Can I Wish Say
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Born Cynic Deny I Was Born
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Course Governments Rich Soak
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Born Circumstances Cynical Events
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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Outstanding Status Suppose Symbols
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Brought Considered Era Still
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I've never been one to bet on the weather.

Been Bet Never Weather
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.

Cities Collection Least Liked
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Change Experience I HaveLearned Learned
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