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Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

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Ratan Tata
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 28
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument
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The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations were not so wealthy. They were involved in the business but most of the family wealth was put into trust and most of the family did not in fact did not enjoy enormous wealth.
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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.
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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.
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We're responsible for the fortunes of the company but this is a bone-dry situation in terms of access to credit. Nobody can operate on that basis unless you have large cash balances, which we don't. My concern is that the government doesn't appear to care about manufacturing.
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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
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I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
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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.
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Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.
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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.
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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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If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together
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None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
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