Amancio Ortega Gaona Quotes

103 Amancio Ortega Gaona Quotes (Amancio Ortega Quotes, Inditex, Zara)

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Die of success? Give me a break! We’ve only just started!
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The customer has always driven the business model…
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I am the property of my business, not the reverse.
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You must appear three times in the newspapers: when you are born, when you get married, and when you die.
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[In 2004 for Inditex] Zara will remain the largest and most international brand.
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[In 1997] The problem of succession in businesses anywhere in the world arises from the fact that not all legal heirs are suitable.
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[In 1999] We cannot limit ourselves to continuing on the path we have already opened…
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[In 1999] Once again we will have to be enthusiastic and exacting in order to convert ideas and projects into reality…
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Attempt to seduce the customer with the latest fashion, the finest design, and the most attentive service.
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[In 1998] The desire for innovation and constant improvement with which we began this project 36 years ago is the motivating idea which has guided us up to the present time. Now we have the privilege of seeing how this original idea, from which many others, with an open and creative mind, have emerged and continue to emerge, has converted itself into the Inditex Group.
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[In 2004 when it had just reached 2,000 sales outlets] Inditex’s strategic plan foresees a total of 4,000 stores in the next five years…
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[In 2006] Our formats have opened 439 new stores during the year in which the landmark number of 3,000 stores has been exceeded; with this respect, it must be pointed out that the opening of the store number 2,000 took place merely two years ago and only six years have lapsed since the opening of our store number 1,000.
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One thing hasn’t changed – the innovative spirit and urge for improvement that was the driving force back then.
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[On his core goal] To satisfy the needs of our customers with the latest in fashion.
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[In 2003 on increasing dividend payments with an eventual payout ratio target of 40%.] Proof of our business’s great capacity to generate funds.
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[In 2003] The key part of Inditex’s business model is its human capital.
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Companies are comprised of human beings without the effort, professionalisms and motivation of whom, no achievement could be made.
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Innovation and commitment towards our customers define our corporate culture…
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[In 2007] We must be able to retain talent, keep our staff motivated and recruit new individuals in the company at a fast pace, and to achieve at the same time for the company a fresh look and the required ambition to be the driving force enabling us to meet new and ambitious purposes.
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The motivation of almost 90,000 individuals working towards a single objective…
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Store employees have the best understanding of… customer tastes…
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Putting our capacity for profitable growth in the long term to the scrutiny of investors.
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We had the certainty of a philosophy and a business culture capable of facing up to the challenges which were arising.
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[In 2010] The future will be marked by the result of combining the flow of accumulated experience with the youth of those who, day by day, join the Group, and these ingredients are going to make it possible for us to continue to this great project forward with the confidence of the first day.
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[In 1998] We must be aware that the experience we have gained is not enough to guarantee our leadership. We must also be faithful to the commitment to effort and improvement which inspires our company.
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[On Inditex in 1998] More than 12,000 people from many different countries currently make up our group. This diversity is synonymous with open-mindedness and flexibility, and pushes us to continue evolving, with enthusiasm and perseverance, towards new projects.
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International expansion, carried out both independently and through agreements with other companies, is the objective that cannot be delayed and will allow us, through diversity, to enrich our culture and vision of the market.
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[In 1998] The creation of new chains and the widening of our product ranges is our response to the new opportunities of the environment.
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Innovation and constant improvement… must keep on being the motivating idea of our Group throughout the 21st century.
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The international expansion of the group in 1999 has continued at an intense rate. Inditex is present in already thirty countries, nine more than the previous year.
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[In 1999 on the main objective of the 14,000 professionals of the Inditex Group] Its main objective… the growth of the Inditex group. Its daily task is marked by self-improvement and the continual search for new opportunities.
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[In 1999] The increase of Inditex’s turnover, with a compound annual rate of 24% in the last five years, has been accompanied by upward evolution of the company’s results. The cashflow has tripled in this period.
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[In 1999] Business efficiency is… an expression of the quality of the management of our business, the complex network of activities of a vertically integrated fashion distribution group, which designs, produces and sells in three continents.
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The future of Inditex is tied to our capacity to respond day by day to the demands of the market and to design and set in motion new projects which are capable of connecting with the desires of our clients around the world.
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This year, the year 2000, we are going to exceed the figure of 1,000 stores and new markets are going to be opened.
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[In 1999] We cannot limit ourselves to continuing on the path we have already opened and once again we will have to be enthusiastic and exacting in order to convert ideas and projects into reality in a world that is advancing at great speed.
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During fiscal year 2000 we have continued our international expansion, and there are now thirty-three countries containing at least one of the five chains forming part of Inditex. Four of them have been incorporated as new markets over the course of the last year. This growth is reflected to the greatest extent in the number of new stores, over 150, and the overall number of outlets, which reached 1,080 on January 31.
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[In 2000] Last year marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of the group’s first store. A lot has changed since then, from the world we live in, to the company itself. But one thing hasn’t changed – the innovative spirit and urge for improvement that was the driving force back then.
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[In 2000] 24,000 professionals world-wide, who each day tackle the same goal that we set when we opened that first store: to satisfy the needs of our customers with the latest in fashion.
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[In 2000] We have a strong foundation… During the last fiscal year our net income rose by 27% and our net revenues by 28%. Sales in our stores located outside of Spain have now exceeded 52% of the total, which confirms our international calling.
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