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I am an Indian to the core.
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I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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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.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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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.
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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.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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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.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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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.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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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.
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I live life what I consider to be normal.