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.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

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.

You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.