Gautam Adani is one of the richest men in the world, and Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the chairman and founder of Adani Group. Gautam was born on 24 June 1962, in a middle-class Jain family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. His father’s name was Shantilal, and his mother’s name was Shanti Adani. He has seven siblings, and the eldest is Mansukhbhai Adani. The family migrated from Tharad town in northern Gujarat in search of employment. His father was a small cloth merchant. He did his schooling at Sheth CN Vidyalaya School, Ahmedabad. In Gujarat University, he was pursuing bachelor’s degree in commerce but dropped out after the second year. Adani has a total of 7 companies, which include Adani Port, Adani Energy, Adani Transmission, Adani Power and Adani Wilmar Limited. Gautam Adani’s Net Worth is $87.4 Billion as of 2022. He is now the second richest Asian. Here we present the best quotes from self made businessman Gautam Adani on motivation, business, entrepreneurship, money and politics.
Gautam Adani Quotes
“Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.”
– Gautam Adani
- “Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.” – Gautam Adani
- “From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.” – Gautam Adani
“Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.”
– Gautam Adani
- “Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.” – Gautam Adani
- I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
- Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone. – Gautam Adani
- One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users. – Gautam Adani
- 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. – Gautam Adani
- I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business. – Gautam Adani
Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
– Gautam Adani
- I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties. – Gautam Adani
- Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India’s largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate. – Gautam Adani
- From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country. – Gautam Adani
- Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable. – Gautam Adani
- When you are in the infrastructure sector, you’ve to work along with the government. – Gautam Adani
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- 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. – Gautam Adani
- Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe. – Gautam Adani
- I could never take orders from anyone. – Gautam Adani
- “My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn’t changed.” – Gautam Adani
- The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation. -Gautam Adani
- The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. -Gautam Adani
- I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that. – Gautam Adani