We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.