Anand Mahindra

“I think this debate is in the wrong direction because this debate is about the quantity of work. My point is we have to focus on the quality of work, not on the quantity of work. So it's not about 48 hours, it's not about 70 hours, it's not about 90 hours. What output are you doing? Even if it's 10 hours, you can chang...”

— From “Focus on Quality, Not Quantity”: Anand Mahindra Speaks on Work-Life Balance to Palki Sharma, Firstpost (January 11, 2025)

“The definition of a developed nation cannot be defined only in material terms. I don't care what our GDP is, I don't care what our per capita income is, if we have not gone about it the right way, if we are not seen as a nation of values, that is how we must differentiate. It's not how big you become, it's how you beco...”

— From “Focus on Quality, Not Quantity”: Anand Mahindra Speaks on Work-Life Balance to Palki Sharma, Firstpost (January 11, 2025)

“India today actually has the cheapest manufacturing costs in the world. It's not surprising that of late companies of the stature of Apple, Samsung, Boeing and Toshiba have shifted a significant amount of their manufacturing activity to India.”

— From Mahindra's 77th Annual General Meeting | Anand Mahindra | Mahindra Group, Mahindra Group (June 28, 2024)

“We said we would reach 18 return on equity in three to five years we achieved it in 18 months. We have just declared the highest dividend in our history. Our share price has gone up five times since the pandemic years.”

— From Mahindra's 77th Annual General Meeting | Anand Mahindra | Mahindra Group, Mahindra Group (June 28, 2024)

“There is a trap in the jugaad phenomenon that it makes us complacent. It makes us think that what we are doing is fine. But jugaad is about making do, it's about compromise, it's about constrained resources. So it's a wonderful skill that we've exercised over time to do more with less, but it does sometimes involve com...”

— From Leadership Lessons by Industrialist Anand Mahindra., Business Today (July 27, 2023)

“Cost competence is India's strength. Not just low cost, not just low-cost labor. It's also about our intelligence combined with a low-cost approach which is our strength. And I think we need to leverage Indian-ness, we need to leverage this capability we have to create new innovations at an incredibly frugal cost which...”

— From Leadership Lessons by Industrialist Anand Mahindra., Business Today (July 27, 2023)

“I have to say this is an emotional moment for me because I, like Vineet and CP, I'm also witnessing a dream coming true and it's a dream that spans three generations.”

— From Mr Anand Mahindra, Chairman Mahindra Group and Chancellor, Mahindra University speaks at the launch, Mahindra University (July 24, 2020)

“And each time I sat through those interviews I would wonder why it was necessary to send our brightest young people abroad, and I would envision a time when we would offer them an education worthy of their talents right here in India.”

— From Mr Anand Mahindra, Chairman Mahindra Group and Chancellor, Mahindra University speaks at the launch, Mahindra University (July 24, 2020)

“I've always said that acquisitions have to be followers to strategy not lead strategy when you go out and say I'm going to acquire something because I have to you normally end up in a ditch so the question is if we find something that's going to bolster our global strategy whether it's a geographic expansion or a techn...”

— From In Conversation With Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group | NDTV carandbike, carandbike (March 05, 2019)

“the real critical reason for us to invest in Pininfarina was because we believed that it was important to fulfill the dream of his grandfather Battista who spent his entire life designing vehicles for other people but somewhere inside himself there sure had a dream that like his friend Enzo Ferrari he wanted his name o...”

— From In Conversation With Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group | NDTV carandbike, carandbike (March 05, 2019)

“There are real, very real specters that we face: the specter of galloping fuel costs, the specter of the falling rupee, the specter of inflation eroding growth and a possible return to the old Hindu rate of growth as we termed it.”

— From Anand Mahindra Addreses the 67th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of M&M - 2013 | Mahindra Rise, Mahindra Group (July 01, 2013)

“Economists estimate that India's GDP could rise by as much as 2 percentage points if we address supply side challenges on roads, railways, ports and power. What we need is a frontal assault on all the bottlenecks, all the regulations and disincentives that can strain the supply side in all key sectors: manufacturing, i...”

— From Anand Mahindra Addreses the 67th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of M&M - 2013 | Mahindra Rise, Mahindra Group (July 01, 2013)

“a city works when it creates interconnectedness between human beings the city works when it has a soul so when culture connectedness and community are designed into a master plan that's when you have a real city”

— From Can Design Contribute to Human Happiness? | Anand Mahindra | Mahindra Rise, Mahindra Group (June 25, 2016)

“when you design and whatever you design could you possibly spend a few minutes reflecting on how you might be contributing to happiness of our species reflect for a few minutes on whether and how you have embedded happiness into the experience of your products are you taking a sad song and making it better and can you...”

— From Can Design Contribute to Human Happiness? | Anand Mahindra | Mahindra Rise, Mahindra Group (June 25, 2016)