Kumar Mangalam Birla

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.

The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

I don't like to get in front of people.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.