Anand Mahindra Quotes
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Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.
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I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.
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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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The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.
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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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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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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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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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Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
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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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We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.
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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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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
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The government should find regulation to encourage ride-sharing companies. Rather than finding impediments for them, regulate them by all means... create a framework by which ride-sharing companies can survive.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Mahindra's brand strategy is about niches across areas of mobility.
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When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.
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I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.