Mukesh Ambani: Quotes about people

Mukesh Ambani is Indian business magnate. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“Then, we stumbled on human and plant biotech. We were fortunate to have some good people and decided that Reliance can build this business over 5-10 years without any great revenue pressures. In the mainstream business, there was telecom or what I call infocomm.”

Mukesh Ambani on how Reliance was built

“The Treaty of India is that all our billion people count and they have aspirations.”

Aspiration of countrymen to ensure growth: Mukesh Ambani

“From a million people, it will benefit 10 million people. If that is what has happened in software, imagine what will happen in agriculture.”

Mukesh Ambani on retail and SEZ plans

“Even the managers. It was all a feudal style of management. If we had accepted that style, we would not have grown. It was simply not a scalable model. Of course, the easiest thing would have been to follow it. But we had a disruptive style of management. So we said, 'we don't want people carrying their wisdom in notebooks as if it is some kind of secretive operation.”

Mukesh Ambani on how Reliance was built

“We got into telecom in the '90s by bidding for cellular licences. But I felt that the real value is in the convergence of information and communication; pure communication will not deliver a sustainable value; that is why we called ourselves infocomm. It was learning a whole new domain. We brought in experts from the outside but we essentially did it with proven Reliance people.”

Mukesh Ambani on how Reliance was built

“I am very bullish on India because it is really the aspiration of a billion people and ours is a county where all the billion count. There are some countries in the world where one person counts, there are some where the Politburo or 12 people count.”

Aspiration of countrymen to ensure growth: Mukesh Ambani

“The first 200-odd people who built Patalganga with me are still around, running different businesses. It has gone into their psyche that we do things differently here. We have taken money from ordinary Indians and we are their trustees. When this is drilled into thousands of people, you automatically get performance.”

Always invest in businesses of the future and in talent

“When we started work on setting up a polyester filament yarn project, my chemical engineering and business school background helped me in organizing the work, creating reporting structures, motivating people… in all this, my father and Rasikbhai were two steps ahead of me.”

Always invest in businesses of the future and in talent

“One of my biggest obsessions today is that senior people must give bright 25-year olds the opportunity to contribute meaningfully.”

Always invest in businesses of the future and in talent

“People first want to spend money on food -- that is common across the world. The second, in India, is education. In many parts of the world, it comes way down the list of priorities. So, there is a huge opportunity.”

Mukesh Ambani on retail and SEZ plans