Words matter. These are the best Anand Mahindra Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.
When we heard that America is pulling out of the Paris Agreement, that’s unfortunate, but frankly – speaking purely from my competitive juices point of view – we are delighted that somebody’s not going to look at these opportunities. They’ll be all there for us.
Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.
In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.
There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.
I think Tesla doesn’t sound like it has a very collaborative culture.
There is no business in the world – I don’t care what it is, whether it’s I.T. or manufacturing – that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.
Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted – we should become disruptors ourselves.
The best way to propel the economy may be to encourage different parts of the country to go their own way.
Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn’t pushing himself hard enough.
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.
To my mind, the education of children – girl children, specifically – is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.
I don’t think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.
The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.
If I were to put labels on demonetization, it would be transparency and traceability.
To me, every decision needn’t be a ‘big-bang’ reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.
When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.
If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don’t guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.
A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is to offer wider choices to consumers with more innovative models.
I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.
India’s sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.
Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.
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.
You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
If you are planning to save the planet, it will not be Tesla that will do it, since only a finite number of people can afford to buy one, even a $35,000 Model 3.
Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.
Sustainability is a part of our ‘rise’ philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
It is processes that are important.
The more I learn about industry structures, the more I feel that once a company has paid the fee, in a manner of speaking, to enter a sector, it becomes even harder to stay afloat.
President Donald Trump’s policies are not global but inward-looking.
I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar – Cinestaan Film Company. But that’s what I do personally.
You go into battle with your strengths.
Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.
We’re going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.
You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.
We don’t believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups… The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.
The moment I say I’m going into scooters, they say, ‘You’re crazy.’ Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it’s fine. But when Anand does it, because he’s some small guy in India, it’s not fine.
I think a CEO lives or dies in whether he’s been able to hold on to elements of culture that are needed in the company.
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.
When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.
For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.
You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.
Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.
It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.
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.
For India’s economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China’s, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.
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.
We often say that the M&M Group’s destiny is inextricably linked with India’s. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.
India’s states must compete, not march in lockstep, if India is to develop its own path to sustainable prosperity.
Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.
Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That’s the hardest thing to find.
The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.
You incubate a product in an atmosphere where that product is best incubated. So, for example, we incubated our electric scooter in California. Because it’s low-volume manufacturing but high-intelligence, intensive manufacturing, we are starting in Michigan.
