Anand Mahindra Quotes
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You go into battle with your strengths.
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The most important thing that I tell myself is that no matter where I go in this journey, the humility is what's gonna keep me honest and real. And perhaps a better manager.
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We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.
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For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.
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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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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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Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.
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You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
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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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You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
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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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The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.
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After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
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You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
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President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.
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The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.
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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
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Social media is one of the most under-rated business tools, in my opinion. It's an amazing cockpit for any CEO. I can narrate any number of stories how it has helped me to reach out to customers, dealers, protesting workers, and even security guards.
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Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.
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Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.
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As far as passenger cars are concerned, I have always said, in the past, we will work more with partners and partnerships. Our focus on our own would be on the SUVs.
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Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar.
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Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
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I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.