J.R.D. Tata Quotes & Sayings

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential. — J.R.D. Tata

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection, — J.R.D. Tata

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential. — J.R.D. Tata

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work, — J.R.D. Tata

The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons. — J.R.D. Tata

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J.R.D. Tata

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J.R.D. Tata

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation ... .wrong priorities and unattainable targets — J.R.D. Tata

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse — J.R.D. Tata

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence — J.R.D. Tata

The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete; what came from the people has gone back to the people many times over. — J.R.D. Tata

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected — J.R.D. Tata

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery. — J.R.D. Tata

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good — J.R.D. Tata

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience — J.R.D. Tata

Live Life a little dangerously — J.R.D. Tata

To lead men, you have to lead them with affection. — J.R.D. Tata

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J.R.D. Tata

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it — J.R.D. Tata

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. — J.R.D. Tata