Anand Mahindra Quotes
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You go into battle with your strengths.
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We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.
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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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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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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 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 cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
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Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.
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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 have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
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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 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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Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
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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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President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.
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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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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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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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I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
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Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.
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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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Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.