Top 66 J R D Tata Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Ratan Tata
#3. I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.
Ratan Tata
#6. 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
J.R.D. Tata
#7. Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.
Ratan Tata
#8. 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,
J.R.D. Tata
#9. Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
Ratan Tata
#10. I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.
J.R.D. Tata
#11. At Tatas, we believe that if we are not among the top three in an industry, we should look seriously at what it would take to become one of the top three players.. or think about exiting the industry
Ratan Tata
#12. There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
Ratan Tata
#13. Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation ... .wrong priorities and unattainable targets
J.R.D. Tata
#14. I probably have everything that Apple has made and everything Bose has made; I am very loyal to certain brands.
Ratan Tata
#15. Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
Ratan Tata
#16. Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected
J.R.D. Tata
#17. Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience
J.R.D. Tata
#18. There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.
Ratan Tata
#19. Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it
J.R.D. Tata
#20. 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.
J.R.D. Tata
#21. Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive
Ratan Tata
#22. Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse
J.R.D. Tata
#23. Challenges need to be given to an organization.
Ratan Tata
#24. If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it ... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Ratan Tata
#25. Indian car buyers have not really been exposed to customer care in a competitive environment.
Ratan Tata
#26. I quite frankly enjoy the touch and feel of a store, so I am a big bookshop person. Or, I go to an electronics store; Best Buy and Croma are places I could spend a lot of time in.
Ratan Tata
#27. Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers.
Ratan Tata
#28. I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
Ratan Tata
#29. If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together
Ratan Tata
#30. People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Ratan Tata
#31. How can you become the leader of Romany if you're a prince of Oxenburg?"
"I have three brother. And as Tata Natasha is fond of telling us, there is not room on the throne for four asses.
Karen Hawkins
#32. Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,
J.R.D. Tata
#33. There has not been a conscious view of re-energising manufacturing. So, in some form, someone has to wave the Union Jack in the area of manufacturing.
Ratan Tata
#34. Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina.
Ratan Tata
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.
Ratan Tata
#39. I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year
Karan Johar
#40. 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
#41. There's a lot of interest in Nano outside India.
Ratan Tata
#42. 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
#43. Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
J.R.D. Tata
#44. 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
#45. Banana republics are run on cronyism.
Ratan Tata
#46. The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.
Ratan Tata
#47. None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
Ratan Tata
#48. 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
#49. If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.
J.R.D. Tata
#50. 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
#51. Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?"
He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me.
"Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.
Jerry Spinelli
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.
Ratan Tata
#56. 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
#57. I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.
Ratan Tata
#58. I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.
Ratan Tata
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.
J.R.D. Tata
#63. To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.
J.R.D. Tata
#64. 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
#65. India has probably lost its position to China as the world's workshop. At the same time it has the power to be ahead of China when it comes to knowledge. Not that the Chinese are far behind. They will get there. But our challenge is to invest sufficiently in education.
Ratan Tata
#66. Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.
Jamsetji Tata
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