Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey

by G.R. Gopinath

Your energy, your passion, your ability to lose yourself in the entirety and the nitty-gritty of your venture to the exclusion of everything else is more important than capital. Thinking is the capital; enterprise is the way; hard work is the solution.

She became part of the landscape—and of my life!

I decided to buy donkeys and gave Raju Rs 700, instructing him to buy ten to twelve animals, and that was how I became a donkey owner.

‘sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations’.

For a business to be viable, entrepreneurs need to create the right ecology for business and for the interactions that it entails.

The problem with Indians, I have been told by foreigners, is that they don’t know how to say ‘No’.

There are two possibilities. I order sixty aircrafts and we finalize a deal in one hour; alternatively I could appoint a purchase committee and run an elaborate techno-economic comparison between Boeing and Airbus to choose the best which could drag on for six to nine months as you bid against each other.

I spoke for half an hour about my dreams. Anil Ambani spoke non-stop for the next three hours.