Ritesh Agarwal Quotes:
As a responsible consumer brand, we have not just built for the short term, but build for longer-term relationships.
Ritesh Agarwal
As I grew up, I was born and brought up with a view of, if you can get an engineering degree, getting a job is remarkably easy and that’s the ambition you should have.
Ritesh Agarwal
At the end of every year our management regroups and thinks about things we did right and what we could improve.
Ritesh Agarwal
Building culture as part of your team is extremely important.
Ritesh Agarwal
By 2023, we will be the world’s largest hotel chain.
Ritesh Agarwal
Capital is always available for good companies, but the only question is value at which you raise capital. In bad times, you raise capital at low valuation, and in good times, you get a fair price. It separates winners from the rest.
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Companies that raise capital do it on the basis of past performance and unique competencies of the business. We cannot raise capital if we are not creating sustained value.
Ritesh Agarwal
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COVID-19 is unlike any other challenge the world has faced, affecting people from every socio-economic background and causing a disruption in operations and processes across industries.
Ritesh Agarwal
Customer expectation and need was quite limited when we started in 2013.
Ritesh Agarwal
Every weekend I would take a train to Delhi and sneak into startup events. I really enjoyed meeting entrepreneurs who were solving big problems. They were way smarter than me. I knew this is where I had to be.
Ritesh Agarwal
For me, it is about having a passion for solving a big problem and leaving a huge impact. Once you have that, everything else falls into place.
Ritesh Agarwal
From my perspective, as an entrepreneur, one is wired to take risks. You, of course, need to be smart and take calculated risks, and then do all you can to make it worth the risk.
Ritesh Agarwal
Geopolitical impact is going to become one of the big risks for companies which are global.
Ritesh Agarwal
Hygiene is going to be a key consumer question post-COVID. Our sanitized stay offerings and commitment towards ensuring minimal contact-based check-in is an important step.
Ritesh Agarwal
I can speak Odiya, Telugu, apart from Hindi and a little bit of Rajasthani, so, truly Indian from that context.
Ritesh Agarwal
I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.
Ritesh Agarwal
I grew up in Rayagada in Orissa state in eastern India. Few people have even heard of it.
Ritesh Agarwal
I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.
Ritesh Agarwal
I had three other siblings, and I was the youngest of the lot.
Ritesh Agarwal
I know what time a customer checked in, what he ordered, did it get delivered on time, did he order for sling bags, and so on. And when the customer checks out, he can walk out like how you get out of cabs because if you have a wallet it’s completely hassle-free.
Ritesh Agarwal
I started Oyo right out of my high school, with limited resources.
Ritesh Agarwal
I’m a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.
Ritesh Agarwal
Initially, when we were running just one hotel in Gurgaon, I used to handle housekeeping, sales, CEO duties, etc. I would literally wear the OYO Rooms uniform for housekeeping and would show the room to customers.
Ritesh Agarwal
Long story short, right after my twelfth grade, the six months between school and university, and that is the time when I came to Delhi and I said that let me try and build a company of my own.
Ritesh Agarwal
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