Quotes from Anand Mahindra

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

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.

Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.

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 glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.

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.

Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead.

Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.

In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.

If I were to put labels on demonetization, it would be transparency and traceability.

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.

My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.

There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.

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 treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

As I have often said, acceptance of the idea of shared mobility is going to be one of the major disruptive trends in the automotive industry.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.

Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.

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.

You want educated women if you are going to have a modern society.