Business

Our mate choices are the ultimate form of consumer choice. I can pretty much fit most of our purposeful behaviours under the umbrella of consumption.

Evolutionary Psychologist & Author Known for Consumer Behavior Research

Not in our wildest dreams did we ever think Infosys could grow as big as it did. This was a different world, a different era.

Co-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer

When a customer sees that a company from India is performing in the financial markets better than their local partner, their attention is caught. We leveraged the financial markets for building brand, for competing in the marketplace.

Co-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer

Scaling any business is about creating a model, debugging the model, making sure you understand the ingredients that need to be scaled up, and making sure you have a process to scale. All of this needs to be wrapped-up in a financial model that allows the scale to be funded.

Co-Founder and Former CEO of Infosys, Indian IT Pioneer

Free trade, openness, security, and a stable government framework have been the key factors behind the emergence of Dubai as an international business hub.

Founder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer

Having forefathers as merchants that forged their own paths pushed me to pursue a similar journey. At this point I got a lead that there was a lot of potential in catering, and so in 1982 I set out to make my mark competing with major international companies.

Founder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer

The only way to engineer virality and make a product work is to understand the consumer, and that changes from city to city, from country to country.

Founder and CEO of dating app Bumble, feminist entrepreneur

Success really is a team sport. There are very few successful people who competed the journey solo, and figured out how to do everything themselves.

Co-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist

Speed and pace are important – the circumstances that brought people to the table can change over time, nothing is forever, nothing is static.

Co-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist

I've always felt negotiation is pretty-easy. You have to look at any situation from the perspective of all sides, and find a zone of fairness in between.

Co-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist

Excellence means you do the absolute best you can in every situation that you face. It's an aesthetic concept, a performance concept, and helps you create the most perfect balance for success.

Co-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist

I never, ever, thought – even remotely – that I would make this festival my life. It was never seen as something that would run forever – and was something which was very much done 'by the seat of our pants'.

Co-organizer of Glastonbury Festival with her father Michael Eavis

It feels to us that the festival is owned by the people, and me and my Dad are kind-of custodians of it. In that sense, it's a bit like a sailing ship… me and my Dad drive it, but the ship is made of a few hundred people.

Co-organizer of Glastonbury Festival with her father Michael Eavis

One of the most precious aspects of Glastonbury is specifically that we can't put our finger on it. It's evolved slowly over 50 years to become what it is today – we've tried things that have worked, some have not, and allowed it to evolve.

Co-organizer of Glastonbury Festival with her father Michael Eavis

If you're not doing this stuff already, just know that other companies are, and if you're not engaging in these activities, you can't keep up, you can't compete.

Author & Researcher on Flow State & Human Peak Performance

Firms like McKinsey are self-reporting that their people are 5x more productive in-flow than out of flow… 500% more productive. That means you can work Monday in-flow and take the rest of the week off – and you'd still get as much done as your peers.

Author & Researcher on Flow State & Human Peak Performance