Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata
Ratan Naval Tata GBEis an Indian businessman, investor, philanthropist and chairman emeritus of Tata Sons. He was the chairman of Tata Group, a Mumbai-based global business conglomerate from 1991 till 2012, and continues to head its charitable trusts...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 December 1937
CitySurat, India
CountryIndia
hurt people done
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.
believe decision right-decision
I don't believe in taking right decisions..
taken thinking people
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.
community needs interest
Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.
team failure play
I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.
successful people ruthlessness
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.
people stones use
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
iron rust mindset
None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
mean important alive
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
business believe decision
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
together want walks
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together
thinking hands law
We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.
children thinking people
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.
thinking competition quality
I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.