J.R.D. Tata Quotes

#1. Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

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#2. Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

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#3. If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

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#4. No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

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#5. Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

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#6. To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.

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#7. Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

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#8. Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected

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#9. Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation ... .wrong priorities and unattainable targets

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#10. I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

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#11. If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection,

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#12. Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

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#13. Live Life a little dangerously

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#14. Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,

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#15. Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

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#16. I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

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#17. Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

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