Podcast | Digging Deep: The business of family - The Ambanis

"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

Ideas are no one's monopoly.

If you’re born poor it’s not your fault but if you die poor it’s your fault.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

True entrepreneurship comes only from risk-taking."

One man, many quotes.

We are talking about the patriarch of Reliance Industries. Yes, Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani himself, or Dhirubhai Ambani as the world knows him.

He is, of course, the man who built the foundation for a business family whose interests span continents. He is the man who founded India’s largest private firm and the second largest publicly traded company, Reliance Industries. He was featured in The Sunday Times among the top 50 businessmen in Asia. He made Reliance Industries go public in 1977 and by 2002, the combined fortune of the family was USD 6 billion. So yes, this is a family like no other.

And the story began with a few coins and a vision that created abundance even when it was not yet visible.