Ratan Tata Quotes

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

About the only thing that I'll probably end up doing is I made this amplifier with Peavey. It's in the manufacturing stages right now, and there are a lot of orders that we just got for it.

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

I've been to so many manufacturing plants. I've yet to walk into one where I did not think AI solutions wouldn't help.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

I think the next massive wave of value creation will be when you can get a manufacturing company or agriculture devices company or a health care company to develop dozens of AI solutions to help their businesses.

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

I believe America should make things.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.

One of the good things that's happening in manufacturing in Mexico is that the old maquiladora that was relegated to just assembling things has changed in different sectors. One of these sectors is the aerospace industry and in how we attract workers that have been in technical school.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists.

I just want to make a difference. I want to make Chrysler the most profitable car company in the United States.

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.