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"38 Ratan Tata Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 December 1937 | Industrialist | Investor | Philanthropist |
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
Decision Believe Taking Right
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Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
Stones Monument You Build
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I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Twist Surface Clean Turn
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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.

Ancestors Behind Companies Continue
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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.
Public Scrutiny Stand Stands
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I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Ashamed Been Bring Constantly
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The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.
Able Am Day Fly
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Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Always Apart Behind Consider
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I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

About Always Been Confident
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Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

Main Power Stakes Two
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I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

Could Differently I Wish More
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I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

Being Best Car Driven
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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.

Able Another Another Way Back
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I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

Along Any Best Compromised
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I think there are many honest businessmen.

Businessmen Honest I Think Many
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People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Adequate Bodies Car Evidence
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People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
Believe Necessarily People Read
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Challenges need to be given to an organization.
Challenges Given Need Organization
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If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

Across Challenges Found Go
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I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

Box Buy Electronics Lot
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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.

Am Best Big Buy
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I probably have everything that Apple has made and everything Bose has made; I am very loyal to certain brands.

Am Apple Brands Certain
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The most expensive part of any manufacturing unit is the paint shop.

Any Expensive Manufacturing Most
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I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Blessed Companies Each Executive
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The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy.

Being Businesses Certain Early
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India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

Basis Come Doing India
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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.

Am Children Connected Family
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My most visible goal is to do something in nutrition to children in India, and pregnant mothers. Because that would change the mental and physical health of our population in years to come.

Because Change Children Come
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When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.

Activities Hinder Human Long
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I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.
Am Earn Growth I Am
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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.

Am Company Favour Government
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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.

About Always Am Amount
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Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

Continue Doing Flying Hope
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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.

Attention Competitive Drive Engineering
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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.

Creativity Embody Experience Innovation
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If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Am Fail Founder Going
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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.

Comfort Deal Founder Give
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As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Become Becomes Everybody Grow
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Ratan Tata Quotes & Sayings