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 Read Quote
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. Ratan Tata Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The – the early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and – and remained personally very wealthy. Tatas were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They – they were involved in the business, but most of the family wealth is put into trust, and the family did not, in fact, enjoy enormous wealth. Ratan Tata Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of. Ratan Tata Read Quote
I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing. Ratan Tata Read Quote
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 Read Quote
