Anand Mahindra Quotes
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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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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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I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.
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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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Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead.
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The market will evolve into two segments: cars that provide ease of access to transport and are shared by many people, and cars that are exclusive, high-end symbols of the owner's status and aspirations.
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President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.
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Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.
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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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You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
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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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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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The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.
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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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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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You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
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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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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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I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.
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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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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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For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.