J N Tata Quotes

#1. 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.

J.R.D. Tata

#2. IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

Ratan Tata

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

J.R.D. Tata

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

J.R.D. Tata

#5. 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.

Ratan Tata

#6. New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

Ratan Tata

#7. I can tell you in all honesty that I am highly connected to my family, my wife, and my three children, though I don't get to spend dollops of hours with them.

Ratan Tata

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

Ratan Tata

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

Ratan Tata

#10. When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

Ratan Tata

#11. Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Ratan Tata

#12. If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

Ratan Tata

#13. Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.

Jamsetji Tata

#14. I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

Ratan Tata

#15. What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Ratan Tata

#16. 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.

Ratan Tata

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

J.R.D. Tata

#18. The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Ratan Tata

#19. None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

Ratan Tata

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

Ratan Tata

#21. Banana republics are run on cronyism.

Ratan Tata

#22. 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.

Ratan Tata

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

J.R.D. Tata

#24. We sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandry.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.

Ratan Tata

#26. There's a lot of interest in Nano outside India.

Ratan Tata

#27. 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.

J.R.D. Tata

#28. I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year

Karan Johar

#29. The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

Ratan Tata

#30. 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.

Ratan Tata