Anand Mahindra Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
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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 have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
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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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You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
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Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
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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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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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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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Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
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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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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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I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.
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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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Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.