Anand Mahindra Quotes
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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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You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
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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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It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.
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You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
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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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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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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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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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The Rise credo is about accepting no limits, alternative thinking, and driving positive change - the three pillars.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
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President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.
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You go into battle with your strengths.
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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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I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
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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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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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One of the demonetization benefits, in some markets like used cars, is that organized, transparent businesses are gaining at the cost of unorganized players.
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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.