Vijay Mallya Quotes

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

- Vijay Mallya

I am an Indian to the core.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

- Vijay Mallya

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

- Vijay Mallya

I live life what I consider to be normal.

- Vijay Mallya

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

- Vijay Mallya

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

- Vijay Mallya

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

- Vijay Mallya

One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

- Vijay Mallya

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

- Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

- Vijay Mallya

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.

- Vijay Mallya

I am pretty tough as a boss.

- Vijay Mallya

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

- Vijay Mallya