Ritesh Agarwal Quotes

Ritesh Agarwal

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 16, 1993

There are causes that are dear to me personally including encouraging entrepreneurship, improving livelihoods as well as helping humanitarian rescue and relief efforts.

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One of the things that's consistent, if you speak to hotel owners or customers across the world, is that the proposition of Oyo is very valuable for each one of them.

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At the end of every year our management regroups and thinks about things we did right and what we could improve.

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Building culture as part of your team is extremely important.

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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.

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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.

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That's our thesis, to operate in a few places and make them home, rather than operate in many places and not have significant ownership.

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Oyo has no plans for an IPO because we are focused on execution.

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By 2023, we will be the world's largest hotel chain.

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We want to convert broken, unbranded assets around the globe into better-quality living spaces.

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I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.

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I grew up in Rayagada in Orissa state in eastern India. Few people have even heard of it.

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My father ran a grocery store.

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The only constant in my life besides OYO is Lisa, my dog. She's a Lhasa apso. The only reason I shop is to buy accessories for Lisa.

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I started Oyo right out of my high school, with limited resources.

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Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

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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.

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The reality of a startup is you have failures very often.

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Post 10th grade, I came to the northern half of the country. I realized that the usual education did not excite me at all because I felt how will understanding trajectory motions in chemistry help me solve real-life problems?

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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.

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