Quotes by Baba Kalyani

Baba Kalyani

Indian businessman

Lived from: 1949 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs

Born: 7 january 1949

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  • Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
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  • Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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  • Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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  • The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
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  • The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.
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  • The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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  • The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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  • The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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  • The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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  • There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
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  • We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
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  • We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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  • We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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  • We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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  • We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.
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  • We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
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  • We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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  • We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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  • We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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  • We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
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