Dilip Shanghvi Quotes

I have targets for business achievements; I do not have targets for acquisitions. Because if you have targets for acquisitions, you end up making compromises in terms of valuations, and you buy things because you have a target, and it is not good for business.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Projects can take years to exhibit proof-of-concept and a few more years to be converted into commercial realities.

- Dilip Shanghvi

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

- Dilip Shanghvi

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Analysts estimate that emerging markets are expected to drive 90 percent of the world's pharmaceutical market growth, and differentiated products will be important to this growth.

- Dilip Shanghvi

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

- Dilip Shanghvi

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

- Dilip Shanghvi

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Clearly in my mind, I have two distinct positions - owner and manager. So I am open to reviewing my performance as a manager as any other person in Sun Pharma.

- Dilip Shanghvi

I think FDA's concerns are patient-safety.

- Dilip Shanghvi

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

- Dilip Shanghvi

It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.

- Dilip Shanghvi

Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

- Dilip Shanghvi

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

- Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

- Dilip Shanghvi