“We can’t change our rulers, but we can least teach them how to rule us.”

Don’t give up, courage is my conviction.

I am deaf to the word ‘no’.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best – not only the best in India, but globally.

A motivated manpower is the most important thing.

Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

True entrepreneurship comes only from risk-taking.

My commitment is to produce at the cheapest price and the best quality.

You do not require an invitation to make profits.

There is no difference between our methods and those of anybody else-the only difference is that our motivation and dedication he is much greater.

I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place- the cremation ground.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

You have to take the calculated risk, to earn something.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw ‘Hercules’ with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn’t be here today.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can’t be changed..And, forget the present because I didn’t get you one.

I think if you’re not trying to change things a little bit, you’re not evolving.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

People always say I’m the Beatle who changed the most, but really that’s what I see life is about… you have to change.