Ratan Naval Tata, GBE is an Indian businessman, investor, philanthropist and interim chairman of Tata Sons.
Born: December 28, 1937 ,India
Awards: Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, CNN-IBN Indian of the Year in Business
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
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.
Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.
If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together.
None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
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.
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.
Challenges need to be given to an organization.
People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.
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.
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.
I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.
I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.
