My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world's petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Why will I not give free service to my customers to get them used to mobile Internet, and to get every small town and village to use it? Everybody does promotions. In the internet world, free is normal.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.

Nobody had anticipated that chemicals was the direction in which Reliance was headed. I did chemical engineering because it was supposed to be the future.

At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.

All of us know that the energy from the sun can now be harnessed, and we need to convert it sensibly to use it.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.

The regulator's job is not to guarantee us a profit, however much we cry. The regulator's job is to first make sure that the country goes forward and then make sure that the consumer goes forward.