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

I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

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.

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

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

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.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.