We can’t change our rulers, but we can least teach them how to rule us.

Reliance’s success is a reflection of India’s capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s transformation in the new millennium.

Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance’s employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.

I, as school kid, was a member of the Civil Guard, something like today’s NCC. We had to salute our officers who went round in jeeps. So I thought one day I will also ride in a jeep and somebody else will salute me.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best – not only the best in India, but globally.

The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I’ll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won’t find in me and that is an ego.

Don’t give up, courage is my conviction.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.