Top 45 Raj Kundra Quotes

All those who know me are aware that sport is my first love.

When I moved to India, with all due respect, in the last 10 years I have been here, I have seen my biggest failures and it only happened because of lack of understanding. To make things work and happen, you have to know people. I don’t like this whole thing of greasing palms.

One can compare the top 10 industrialist earnings to top 10 actors in Bollywood and whilst one gives you more fame the other certainly pays much better.

I have anyway washed my hands of cricket in India.

In India only sex and Bollywood sell. So if you are not using either of them, forget launching any product, sport or business in India.

Mixed Martial Arts is a new sport to India.

I come from a humble background. My dad moved to London 45 years ago and worked as a bus conductor whereas my mother worked in a factory. We never had it easy.

I was born and brought up in England.

My mother caught my ex-wife and sister’s husband red handed, in compromising situations many times.

Now I’m in a position where I can invest in startups and take up challenges. Some things do well and some don’t, but I think my track record has been interesting.

I am very passionate about all sports.

I have filed multiple defamations where my wife’s name is mentioned relating to any of my personal battles. It’s incorrect and the media needs to realize they can’t scandalize and spoil names every time just because an individual is married to a celebrity.

Without hesitation I can state that I have done no wrong for which I need to have any regrets.

What irks me most about Shilpa is that she can get extremely hyper. I ask her to calm down. She’s become a lot more placid than before. Any major news and her whole world crumbles in front of her. I’m the calming factor in her life.

Bollywood is the biggest driving force and action movies are the people’s number one choice.

On our profit margins, honestly on all our products, anything we work on in in the industry, I do not touch it unless it is double digits.

Our target audience is mostly men aged between 15 and 35. But many women also send me messages on social media sites saying how much they enjoy SFL.

Any kind of technology, anything that leads to people looking at their phone and using their phone. If you can give them that product… I always say, any business venture you are looking at today has to involve the mobile phone.

Most of the investments I did early on in life have paid off well.

I enjoy football, cricket and I have been watching mixed martial arts for the last five years.

There’s no value of money for me.

Keeping fit, six pack abs, fights is all part of this age, so why not give a platform to make money out of it and not just give everything to cricket.

In every relationship there will be a person who’s the dominating character. That doesn’t mean that celebrities don’t marry or that they don’t get a partner.

I am in for making films only because my wife has been part of this industry.

I tried to reach out to my daughter a few times but no one was willing to connect me. I should have tried harder but I guess I just moved on with my life in a new country.

I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single person bets I am sorry to say.

Later when I met Shilpa via some common friends and my ex heard online about us going out, she increased her divorce demands. She even sold a story for tens of thousands of pounds to a U.K. tabloid claiming Shilpa ruined her marriage to the press.

MMA has been in U.S. for the past 10 years. I went to Sanjay Dutt and said ‘I want to launch this sport.’ He said ‘I also watch it every night… let’s go and do it.’

For me, the business ventures in England were far more easier. Everything was done by the book, the protocols were far more easy to follow.

When you get blamed for something you haven’t done, it brings collateral damage.

Everyone asks me do you want a boy or a girl? I really don’t mind, it should be a healthy baby.

I can bet Salman doesn’t earn that much… well, at least nowhere near me.

MMA is a full contact sport, a kind of an organized street fight, which uses both striking and grappling techniques and involves 36 different martial arts.

I tried reaching out to my daughter via her family members but they couldn’t get me access or straight answers. I know she will come and find me when the time is right.

We give young boys a platform to get training in MMA and aim to put India on the MMA map.

I made a lot of money. It took a lot of time but when I started making money, it really sort of worked well. Things fell into place.

The most difficult part of the decision to marry Shilpa was the fact that she did not want to leave India.

I’m a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

So Viaan Industries Ltd has three verticals; one is licensing and technology which concentrates on Fintech and licensing various products and creating IPs in the country in the software fintech space.

In 2011, I negotiated to sell a plot that I owned near the airport to RKW Developers whose director was Dheeraj Wadhawan.

The beauty of MMA is that it’s not staged, it’s a real sport and we have a lot of Punjabis involved in it.

Kavita didn’t want me near my child.

Pandemic-proof means the mobile phone has to be used and it has to be used in such a positive way that your next invention has to say, ‘You know what, I am going to get another 30-40-50 million users that are out there onto my product through my mobile phone and that’s going to help me sell what I do.’

I love my Shilpa a lot, but if you ask me how it feels, I can tell you it’s not easy. Can’t you see I have lost so much weight by running after her everyday?

MMA is a full combat sport comprising 36 different styles of fighting including karate, judo and kung-fu.