Quotes from Anand Mahindra

The moment I say I'm going into scooters, they say, 'You're crazy.' Six months later, when BMW comes out with an electric scooter, it's fine. But when Anand does it, because he's some small guy in India, it's not fine.

As far as passenger cars are concerned, I have always said, in the past, we will work more with partners and partnerships. Our focus on our own would be on the SUVs.

You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.

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.

The job of automobile manufacturers is to passionately build something that others love to own.

For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

I love the blues, but I love a lot of music.

For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.

Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business.

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

India's states must compete, not march in lockstep, if India is to develop its own path to sustainable prosperity.

For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.

I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.

India's sprawling subcontinent can never become a plus-size Singapore. But perhaps we can weave together an urban web that is the equivalent of a thousand Singapores.

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

We don't believe start-ups are the private preserve of only garage start-ups... The corporate garage is going to be the scene of a lot of action.

Old definitions of segments are going to get blurred. Once you defined cars by horsepower, engines. That has changed.