Anand Mahindra

“Just like you have fire regulations, they should have regulations that no building would be made without charging points for electric vehicles.”

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

“Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.”

“I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.”

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

“We have never shied away from making investments. Even during downcycles, we never stopped our investments.”

“I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.”

“In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.”

“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.”

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

“The term 'niche' is no longer pejorative.”

“The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.”

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

“I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.”

“To me, every decision needn't be a 'big-bang' reform but a signal of proactive decision-making and removal of red tape and bureaucracy.”

“We often say that the M&M Group's destiny is inextricably linked with India's. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.”

“2012 was a good year for the Mahindra Group, as we moved ahead by venturing into new geographies and businesses.”

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

“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.”

“Branding in electric mobility is critical, but I think what Tesla has also demonstrated is that you can build new brands.”