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I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We're construction guys first and foremost.

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

I don't know anything about the hotel business.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.