“Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.”

At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you.

Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.

Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I’m not a social person that wants to go to parties.

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you’ve to work along with the government.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

We are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics.

I could never take orders from anyone.

Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Never bribe yourself. Be whole. Be your own hero.