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Jamsetji Tata, followed by views of various people about the founder of the Tata
Group There
is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy
which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying
the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However]
what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and
most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make
them of the greatest service to the country. ********** Be
sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing
variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens. Reserve
large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan
mosques and Christian churches.
— Jamsetji Tata in a letter to son Dorab about his vision for the township
that would eventually become Jamshedpur. ********** We
do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous or more philanthropic than other
people. But we think we started on sound and straightforward business principles,
considering the interests of the shareholders our own, and the health and welfare
of the employees, the sure foundation of our success. ********** Freedom
without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel
delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread
industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's
economic life. ********** I
have always held the opinion that all taxation in India bears most heavily on
the poor and most lightly on the well-to-do classes. Those whose life and property
receive the greatest protection from the government have the least to pay for
it, while those with nearly nothing to lose have often to forgo their meals to
pay the dues of government. ********** If
you cannot make it greater, at least preserve it. Do not let things slide. Go
on doing my work and increasing it, but if you cannot, do not lose what we have
already done.
— Jamsetji Tata to his son Dorab while on his deathbed. ********** With
honest and straightforward business principles, close and careful attention to
details, and the ability to take advantage of favourable opportunities and circumstances,
there is a scope for success. ********** In
a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business,
but is in fact the very purpose of its existence. Quotes about Jamsetji Tata
The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial
pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the
nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively
for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete. What came from the people has gone
back to the people many times over.
— JRD Tata ********** When
you have to give the lead in action, in ideas — a lead which does
not fit in with the very climate of opinion — that is true courage,
physical or mental or spiritual, call it what you like, and it is this type of
courage and vision that Jamsetji Tata showed. It is right that we should honour
his memory and remember him as one of the big founders of modern India.
— Jawaharlal Nehru ********** He
was not a man who cared to bask in the public eye. He disliked public gatherings,
he did not care for making speeches, his sturdy strength of character prevented
from fawning on any man, however great, for he himself was great in his own way,
greater than most people realised. He sought no honour and he claimed no privilege,
but the advancement of India and her myriad peoples was with him an abiding passion.
— The Times of India on Jamsetji Tata's death ********** While
many others worked on loosening the chains of slavery and hastening the march
towards the dawn of freedom, Jamsetji dreamed of and worked for life as it was
to be fashioned after liberation. Most of the others worked for freedom from a
bad life of servitude; Jamsetji worked for freedom for fashioning a better life
of economic independence.
— Dr Zakir Hussain, the former president of India ********** That
he was a man of destiny is clear. It would seem, indeed, as if the hour of his
birth, his life, his talents, his actions, the chain of events which he set in
motion or influenced, and the services he rendered to his country and to his people,
were all pre-destined as part of the greater destiny of India.
— JRD Tata ********** No
Indian of the present generation had done more for the commerce and industry of
India.
— Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, following Jamsetji Tata's demise Uploaded
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