Some of the famous quotes by Kishore Biyani

Kishore Biyani is an Indian Billionaire money manager who is the Founder and CEO of Future Group, one of India’s greatest physical retailers. He is additionally the organizer of retail organizations like Pantaloon Retail and Big Bazaar.

 

Kishore Biyani is an Indian Billionaire money manager who is the Founder and CEO of Future Group, one of India’s greatest physical retailers. He is additionally the organizer of retail organizations like Pantaloon Retail and Big Bazaar.

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1. “We live in an imperfect world, and it is meaningless to strive for perfection. It is far better to strive for excellence.”

2. “People who are asleep make no mistakes…In whatever journey you undertake, you are going to face a lot of challenges. When the challenges come, how you learn from that and how you introspect takes you to another level. Every challenge will take you somewhere.”

3. “We believe that in India we have the opportunity to grow for the next two to three years. We believe at the moment consumers are feeling psychologically stronger than they ever were to spend.”

4. “I believe that we all come to this world to kill time. Therefore, we pick up some activity that we like doing and call it our profession. I call this the time pass theory.”

5. “If we provide people with an occasion to shop, they will come, whether in the cities or in the small towns.”

6. “We have learned that if we provide people with an occasion and an excuse to shop, they will come.”

7. “A manager always fears making a mistake and that is where he differs from an entrepreneur.” shore Biyani

8. “There’s a tearing hurry. We should be large enough before anybody comes in whoever that may be. We learned from them that you can sell utensils and fashion together.”

9. “Always believe in doing new things – learning, unlearning, relearning.”

10.“We are assuming India will grow, that we are going to have a lot of young people who will want to shop. But everything can change overnight.”

11. “There are two types of leadership. The first is all about thought leadership, which is an original thought, believing in it, and making things happen based on those thoughts. The second type is skills leadership, which refers to doing things consistently and in your own style.”

12. “Why do we want to give them easy access? The ‘Wal-Mart effect’ is well documented.”

13. “Don’t get attached to what you create. The customer can reject you in an hour.”

14. “India cannot grow without its entrepreneurs. They are the ones who will create the jobs.”

15. “Physical has its own advantages and nuances and digital has its own. Both of them came in different eras and they will meet. I think in the next three to four years, it will be ‘physical.”

16. “In order to achieve any dream, one needs to have the willingness to change, confidence, and a total lack of inhibitions. This features youth, the ones who are going to drive the trends.”

17. “The first is all about thought leadership, which is an original thought, believing in it and making things happen based on those thoughts.”

18. “Most people are trained to be preservers. It is great to be a preserver. But for us, whoever has to create has to destroy. Without destroying, you cannot create anything new.”

19. “We can chop and change anything we do, anytime. Nothing is constant for us. Nothing is constant here. We believe in destroying what we have created.”

20.” Our measurement of effectiveness is a capitalistic approach based largely on how successful leaders are in terms of balance sheet performance. But we must also look at many other benchmarks.”

21. “One would have to change everything to look at things differently.”

22. “For me, leadership is all about thought leadership, not skills leadership. Skills leadership can be developed even after the age of 24 or 25, but thought leadership cannot be developed after a certain age.”

23. “It’s not so easy to get people in smaller towns to spend money, but they still come to the store, all dressed up with their families. It’s an outing for them.”

24. “Don’t think too much. And don’t have too much knowledge. Ignorance is the biggest thing I feel. If I had done an MBA, I would never have been able to build a business.”

25.“It’s not a matter of can we take on foreign retailers, but how big a gorilla you are.”