The Quotable Tycoon

Containing more than 700 instructive, perceptive, and often outrageous views on business from the world’s most powerful corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, The Quotable Tycoon covers more than a century of inspirational, irreverent and timely insights.
Dhirubhai Ambani, Warren Buffett, Narayana Murthy, John D. Rockefeller, Akio Morita, Jack Welch, J.R.D. Tata, Donald Trump, Aditya Vikram Birla, Oprah Winfrey, Shikha Sharma, and Bill Gates are among the scores of tycoons from Asia, North America, and Europe whose witty and provocative comments appear in this book.
They are complemented by wry reflections on business by such varied observers as Mark Twain, Mae West, Winston Churchill and Peter Drucker. The quotes are arranged thematically so that the thoughts of business leaders throughout history can be easily scanned. In this wonderful treasury, David Olive and Gita Piramal not only provide the reader with hours of entertaining and stimulating reading, but also present anyone in search of a witty, sharp remark on business with the perfect reference book.


About the author

A journalist with a PhD in business history, Gita Piramal has written for many years on the corporate sector for leading Indian and international publications such as the Financial Times and the Economic Times, and is a consulting editor of the World Executive’s Digest. She also has been involved in the making of television programmes on Indian business for the BBC and Plus Channel. In 1986, she co-authored India’s Industrialists, and in 1991 contributed to Business and Politics in India—A historical perspective, published by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She divides her time between London and Mumbai.

Other books by Gita Piramal include Business Legends, Business Mantras and Managing Radical Change (co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal).

Gita Piramal is one of India’s foremost business writers. She is now the managing editor of The Smart Manager, India’s first world-class management magazine.