I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
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.
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.
Really do a job and do it well.
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.
Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come only from how well a nation can cope with economic realism and towards that India must work, must find its own place under the sun.
As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.
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.
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.
We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.
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.
We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.
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.
