All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.
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.
I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.
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.
If there are some losses that you take, then we're all big boys - we shouldn't be crying.
I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.
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.
Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.
We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.
By that time - the early '70s - Vimal was a fairly successful textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT.
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.
At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.
I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
