Mukesh Ambani

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.

Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.

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.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

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

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

Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a little bit of time, either work at the World Bank or teach as a professor.

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

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 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.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

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.

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

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.