The Great Businessman, Ratan Tata,Indian industrialist | Words Are God

 

 

1. I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.

 

2. None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

 

3. 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

 

4. 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.

 

5. Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

 

6. 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.

 

7. The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

 

8. 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.

 

9. 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.

 

10. 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.

 

11. 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.

 

12. I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

 

13. 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.

 

14. 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

 

- By Ratan Tata