Quotes from Mukesh Ambani

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

Nobody had anticipated that chemicals was the direction in which Reliance was headed. I did chemical engineering because it was supposed to be the future.

The regulator's job is not to guarantee us a profit, however much we cry. The regulator's job is to first make sure that the country goes forward and then make sure that the consumer goes forward.

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product but if your bottom line goes bust then that's it.

If there are some losses that you take, then we're all big boys - we shouldn't be crying.

At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That's been my father's philosophy and mine as well.

Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Mobile internet will be the single-most defining technology of this century for human development.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That's a risk that business people take.

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

For my father, life was uni-dimensional. Reliance was his life. Yet, some of my most vivid memories are about spending time with him. However busy he may have been, whatever the pressure, Sunday was for his wife and kids. I try to do the same with my family.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

By that time - the early '70s - Vimal was a fairly successful textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT.

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

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.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

As long as you've got your courage of conviction, it works for you. I think that the same applies, too, even where you don't, because in today's world, financial resources are the least important. World has moved to the power of ideas.

Until my father brought me into Reliance, I was pretty sure that I wanted to study in a U.S. university: hopefully, a little bit of time, either work at the World Bank or teach as a professor.