JRD Tata Quotes

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation, wrong priorities and unattainable targets

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 condi

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work

We have to find the intermediate ways and means of restoring a degree of stability to our politics and more than a degree of safety to our citizens

Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected.

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.

When you work, work as if everything depends on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depends on God

Never start with diffidence, Always start with confidence.

Live Life a little dangerously

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,

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

To be a leader, you have got to lead human beings with affection

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work,

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

To lead men, you have to lead them with affection.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.