For a man who is nothing but a media genius and has dabbled with multiple businesses like Toothbrush manufacturing, Cable TV, UTV Motion Pictures, and off late with ventures like Authoring his own book – Dream with your eyes open: An Entrepreneurial Journey, Lenskart, Zivame, etc. Ronnie Screwvala is nothing short of an inspiration for many Entrepreneurs to be! For a man whose favorite words are “Disruptive” and “Failure”, Ronnie seems to have successfully won over the typical Indian mentality that highly thrives on the false sense of security.
His latest book has an astounding budget of a never heard of Rs. 5 Crore budget for production and marketing in the Indian Publishing Business and is nothing short of a testimony to his belief in being disruptive and not being intimidated by failures! And by his own admission, half of his book is on his failures. We have compiled Top 5 Ronnie Screwvala quotes for all the Entrepreneurs, from his latest visit at startupjalsa that are simply put – Inspirational!
1) Dreaming with your eyes open means being alert to challenges but refusing to let them stop you.” You can’t start a business by chance. If that’s what you are doing, things won’t work.
2) Innovation is not just a bright idea. You need to re-invent all the time.
3) To sell the concept of cable TV, we set up hundreds of demos in building lobbies across the city, bringing residents their first taste of technology and choice in content. Over the next twelve months, we did over 1,000 demos and more than 3,000 door-to-door visits before we got our first connection.
4) Being known to billion people, doesn’t mean you’ve built a brand. But, marketing constantly creates a brand. You can never build a national brand unless it touches the consumers.
5) if you are not thinking scale, you are not thinking strategy.
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