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RATAN TATA Top 22 Motivation Quotes


Ratan Tata

RATAN TATA

Top 22 RATAN TATA Motivation Quotes 


  • “I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”

  • “None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!”

  • “If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.”

  • “Powers and wealth are not two of my main stakes.”

  • “Deal with crisis in such a way that you can hold your head high and sleep well at night.”

  • “People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.”

  • “I think there are many honest businessmen.”

  • “I am interested in what I earn, I am interested in my growth.”

  • “Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.”

  • “The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.”

  • Take the stones people throw at you. and use them to build a monument.”

  • “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.”

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

  • As you grow older, you become everybody becomes – less inflexible and a little more accommodating.”

  • 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.”

  • “Flying, I continue to be involved with it. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.”
 
  • “If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognize that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.”
 
  • “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.”
 
  • “Ups and downs are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in an E. C. G. means we are not alive.”
 
  • “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.”
 
  • “If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn’t happened because we, sadly, don’t look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don’t make such boundaries.”
 
  • “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.”