I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.Collection: Travel
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.Collection: Epic
I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.Collection: Running
If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.Collection: Team
We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.Collection: Class