Anand Mahindra
Businessman
1955-05-01
Anand Mahindra is an Indian business executive and chairperson of the Mahindra Group.
Quotes by Anand Mahindra
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The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.
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Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.
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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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You go into battle with your strengths.
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Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
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Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.
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Branding in electric mobility is critical, but I think what Tesla has also demonstrated is that you can build new brands.
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I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.
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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.
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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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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.
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The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.
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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.
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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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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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I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
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Just like you have fire regulations, they should have regulations that no building would be made without charging points for electric vehicles.
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To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.
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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.
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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.
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