103 Quotes by Anand Mahindra

There is a degree of freedom that creates aspirations.

It's this unilateral thing that makes people upset; you want everything your way, and as long as the world toes your line, it's fine. But you guys are the ones who used nuclear bombs in Japan. You used chemical weapons in Vietnam. And you're the ones driving all those gas-guzzling cars. You have no moral ground to stand on. Who are you to tell us what to do?

Stokes acquisition demonstrates our commitment to build a world-class business that serves global customers and enhances value for stakeholders.

I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you'll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It's done to advance a strategy.

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.

You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.