Quotes from Mukesh Ambani

Reliance has built a refinery-led energy business and a materials business. In the energy business, we give 2% of the world's petrol, diesel, and aviation fuel.

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

China and India will, separately and together, unleash an explosion of demand.

I am personally a big believer that technology is the biggest driver of human development, and if you can use technology to benefit people, then that's the best business you can have.

All of us know that the energy from the sun can now be harnessed, and we need to convert it sensibly to use it.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

Why will I not give free service to my customers to get them used to mobile Internet, and to get every small town and village to use it? Everybody does promotions. In the internet world, free is normal.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track.

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.