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1. I spend my own money, not other people’s money.
2. At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn’t like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn’t like a good time?… but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn’t necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
3. I am an honest, straight guy.
4. My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn’t like it at the time, but I can’t help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
5. I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
6. I live life what I consider to be normal.
7. I’m a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I’ve spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.
8. I live the way I want to live, and I don’t comment on the way that other people live.
9. I’m not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o’clock in the morning and I’m looking for my secretary because I want to know what’s going on.
10. Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
11. It’s not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
12. Everybody keeps saying that India’s a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
13. Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
14. I do not believe in hypocrisy.
15. I am pretty tough as a boss.
16. Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
17. Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
18. If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
19. I think that the poorest of the poor… look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
20. I am an Indian to the core.