"Banana republics are run on cronyism." — Ratan Tata

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

I think there are many honest businessmen.

India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

I always felt that Nano should have been marketed towards the owner of a two-wheeler because it was conceived giving the people who rode on two wheels with the whole family an all-weather safe form of affordable transportation, not the cheapest.

The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

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Banana republics are run on cronyism.