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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.

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.

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.

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.

I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

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