Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman and politician. The son of businessman Vittal Mallya, he is the ex-chairman of United Spirits Ltd, the largest spirits company in India and continues to serve as Chairman of UB Group, an Indian conglomerate with interests in beverage alcohol, aviation infrastructure, real estate and fertiliser among others. He has been the Chairman of Sanofi Indiaas well as the Chairman of Bayer CropScience in India for over 20 years, in addition to being the Chairman...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 December 1955
CityBantwal, India
CountryIndia
I do not believe in hypocrisy.
Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
I am pretty tough as a boss.
Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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.
I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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.
I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
I live life what I consider to be normal.
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.
Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.