Quotes By Ratan Tata

I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none can destroy a person, but his own mindset can!

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.

I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

I probably have everything that Apple has made and everything Bose has made; I am very loyal to certain brands.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.

I always felt that Nano should have been marketed towards the owner of a two-wheeler because it was conceived giving the people who rode on two wheels with the whole family an all-weather safe form of affordable transportation, not the cheapest.

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power.It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

After I retired, it seemed to me that there was a whole new world out there, which was a digital world driven by a marketplace, basically,which had a huge potential driven by handheld devices, which would one day become the virtual retail store of India.

I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.

I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.