Anand Mahindra Quotes
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I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
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The moment I say I'm going into scooters, they say, 'You're crazy.' Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it's fine. But when Anand does it, because he's some small guy in India, it's not fine.
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To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.
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The more I learn about industry structures, the more I feel that once a company has paid the fee, in a manner of speaking, to enter a sector, it becomes even harder to stay afloat.
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Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.
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The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
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It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.
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My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.
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We see ourselves as being people who want to take India to the world; we see ourselves as being aggressive, assuming risk.
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When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.
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As I have often said, acceptance of the idea of shared mobility is going to be one of the major disruptive trends in the automotive industry.
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The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.
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Mahindra's brand strategy is about niches across areas of mobility.
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Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.
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You incubate a product in an atmosphere where that product is best incubated. So, for example, we incubated our electric scooter in California. Because it's low-volume manufacturing but high-intelligence, intensive manufacturing, we are starting in Michigan.
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We don't believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups... The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.
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I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
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It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.
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I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
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You go into battle with your strengths.
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Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.
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You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.
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Our credo says that, in the end, we want to drive positive change in the lives of our stakeholders and communities across the world, enabling them to rise.
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I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.