The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

Ups and downs are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in an E. C. G. means we are not alive.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognize that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Flying, I continue to be involved with it. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn’t give me a great deal of comfort.

As you grow older, you become everybody becomes – less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it… if it doesn’t stand the test of public scrutiny then don’t do it.

Take the stones people throw at you. and use them to build a monument.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

I am interested in what I earn, I am interested in my growth.

I think there are many honest businessmen.

IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you’re talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.