Anand Mahindra Quotes

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

There is nothing that would prevent Fiat Chrysler from providing ride-sharing service to a wider community and using our dealer network for this.

Millennials aren't buying cars anymore. They don't want to drive. They don't want to own these cars. They don't want that inconvenience.

If we want every car on the road to be a Lyft, we need to make it incredibly convenient for drivers.

It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?

A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is to offer wider choices to consumers with more innovative models.

Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

A great hullabaloo is being made in Germany over the people’s car – seven million are to be built and almost ever family will have its own little car.

The bigness and the economic “power” of the railroad companies did not impede the emergence of the motor car and the airplane.

I will build a motorcar for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.

The autonomous car is definitely coming, and when that stage comes, this ride-share business becomes even more important.

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they want to go, when they want to go there. And that's what Uber is.

The day will come when the notion of car ownership becomes antiquated. If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car.

Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

If you can make it economical for people to get out of their cars or sell their cars, and turn transportation into a service, it's a pretty big deal.

There's a massive opportunity as more and more millennials and others in cities switch over from car ownership to transportation as a service. They are picking Lyft, and we want to stay focused on that big opportunity.

We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.

I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

Though we work with rental agencies, a large part of our fleet comprises individual drivers.