Mukesh Ambani quotes

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything. (Mukesh Ambani)

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

Mukesh Ambani

So, these were the four components of my upbringing -- the academic stuff where I was left to myself, Mahendrabhai, my father's passion for creating Reliance and the last piece was his deep links with the family.

Mukesh Ambani

Broadband and digital services will no longer be a luxury item - a scarce commodity - to be rationed amongst the privileged few.

Mukesh Ambani

A third track running at that time, apart from academics and the fun stuff, was that my father shared with me his passion for business and entrepreneurship from very early on. Even when I was in high school, I used to spend long hours at office on weekends.

Mukesh Ambani

I dream of India becoming one of four most powerful economies of the world. I believe this dream can be made a reality within our life times.

Mukesh Ambani

The Treaty of India is that all our billion people count and they have aspirations.

Mukesh Ambani

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.

Mukesh Ambani

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.

Mukesh Ambani

Even the managers. It was all a feudal style of management. If we had accepted that style, we would not have grown. It was simply not a scalable model. Of course, the easiest thing would have been to follow it. But we had a disruptive style of management. So we said, 'we don't want people carrying their wisdom in notebooks as if it is some kind of secretive operation.

Mukesh Ambani

But this doesn't work without a scheme. If you ask me to build a power plant, I cannot give that power at 3 cents or 4 cents, unless I put up a 2000 MW project. It's the same for an airport, seaport and all the other stuff. You need to spread costs over a sensible size to keep unit costs low. (Mukesh Ambani)

We were clear that we had to be internationally competitive and were passionate about building competencies that were the best in the world even when the tariffs were very high. It was an obsession with me to beat the Taiwanese and the Koreans who dominated the polyester business in the '70s.

Mukesh Ambani

I have turned into a big nature fan as well.... I can afford it more today. These childhood influences have shaped me into what I am today.

Mukesh Ambani

In the '80s, when I came in, the ground rules were made clear to me. 'Build this business from scratch, without taking anyone from Reliance.' That forced you to be very disciplined. I looked around and figured out in three months that this industry runs on heroes.

Mukesh Ambani

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

Mukesh Ambani

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

Mukesh Ambani

From a million people, it will benefit 10 million people. If that is what has happened in software, imagine what will happen in agriculture.

Mukesh Ambani

We offer to protect their savings in a job here. If you earn $100,000 a year there, you also spend $80,000 and save $15,000-$20,000. We say, if you work for us in India, we will ensure you save $15,000 dollars a year and are part of something exciting without a loss to you.

Mukesh Ambani

We got into telecom in the '90s by bidding for cellular licences. But I felt that the real value is in the convergence of information and communication; pure communication will not deliver a sustainable value; that is why we called ourselves infocomm. It was learning a whole new domain. We brought in experts from the outside but we essentially did it with proven Reliance people.

Mukesh Ambani

I am very bullish on India because it is really the aspiration of a billion people and ours is a county where all the billion count. There are some countries in the world where one person counts, there are some where the Politburo or 12 people count.

Mukesh Ambani

The first 200-odd people who built Patalganga with me are still around, running different businesses. It has gone into their psyche that we do things differently here. We have taken money from ordinary Indians and we are their trustees. When this is drilled into thousands of people, you automatically get performance. (Mukesh Ambani)

I believe India today is potentially poised for another even more stupendous leap on its upward trajectory. India's relative weight in the global economy and in world affairs in general, is bound to grow for many reasons. By 2030, India is projected to overtake China as the most populous country in the world, with the third largest economy in US dollar terms. Furthermore India is a very young nation with nearly two thirds of its population below the age of thirty-five.

Mukesh Ambani

We got into life sciences as a defence mechanism in the late '90s.

Mukesh Ambani

I think that China is maintaining steady growth, it is not decelerating. Europe has found its own transition path and they will transgress through the financial system in an orderly way and it is my expectation. India has had some slow growth. But, I am very optimistic on India.

Mukesh Ambani

When we started work on setting up a polyester filament yarn project, my chemical engineering and business school background helped me in organizing the work, creating reporting structures, motivating people... in all this, my father and Rasikbhai were two steps ahead of me.

Mukesh Ambani

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