At Tatas, we believe that if we are not among the top three in an industry, we should look seriously at what it would take to become one of the top three players.. or think about exiting the industry
When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.
The great skill of investment is to know when the right time is to get out. Getting in's easy.
We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door.
Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
The company will never go to the market. We want to keep strict self-financing.
If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.
Fifteen years ago, I really give up American market.
It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.
