Anand Mahindra

Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find. ”

Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead. ”

The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world. ”

To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society. ”

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. ”

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway. ”

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us. ”

The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system. ”

It requires a different holistic approach and a recognition that it's not simply a question of stepping into China's shoes. Our 'Make in India' has to be different from China's in the sense that we have to do a 'taal-mel' or 'jugalbandi' of our IT skills that exist and our evolving manufacturing skills and become intelligent manufacturers. ”

Education is like the pooja ghar for us. We are never going to become a for-profit player in education. It will be akin to selling the pooja ghar. ”