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All Quotes by author - Ratan Tata

" 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. "

" As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating. "

" Banana republics are run on cronyism. "

" Challenges need to be given to an organization. "

" Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina. "

" 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. "

" I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box! "

" I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. "

" Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes. "

" Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support. "

" The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me. "

" The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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