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Sajjan Jindal

Chairman & Managing Director, JSW Steel Limited

Search every verified Sajjan Jindal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a May 2026 podcast appearance, Sajjan Jindal, Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel, discussed his personal ambition and his views on leadership. Jindal stated that he believes he is "one of the very few chosen ones by the almighty who has the ability and the caliber to make a difference to this nation." He also said his ambition is "to become number one steel producer in the world from India," adding that he tells his team, "if the Chinese can do it why can't we." Jindal described himself as "very frank" and said he does not like to hide anything. During the conversation, Jindal reflected on his upbringing in a joint family, saying the biggest learning was "to give or to share." He noted that he has open conversations with his own children, which he said he did not have with his father. Jindal also said he is "never going to retire" and encouraged enjoying work, family, and holidays, stating, "enjoy everything, enjoy work, enjoy playing, enjoy family, enjoy holidays, every moment."

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“ambition is to become number one steel producer in the world from India whether we do it or not that's okay but I I talk I tell this to all my people all my team that we if we want to do it and let's be number one was why not we have got everything we the market we've got people you know it's it's an amazing and if the Chinese can do it why can't we”

“We want to invest close to ₹3000 crore to build this massive color coated and tin plate complexes to feed this part of because because I believe that India has a huge future tremendous opportunity apne desh ke andar hai.”

“We have to learn from a country like China which is building the economy at a fraction of the cost of of let's say us because we are taking technology from smaller countries and more expensive countries. We have to learn from China. Now how can we collaborate with China? That's a question which is not for me to decide. It's the the government has to decide that. But but if we have to expand and take our economy to a ”

“India is a large country and we have a huge resource of critical mineral within within our uh uh land. Uh unfortunately we have not explored them and we have never really used them uh these these critical minerals. It is only now when China is threatening to block the critical minerals or for example magnets or lithium to come into India. We need to we have never as a country we have never looked at looked at it from”

“China today the big challenge that the global manufacturing industry faces is that China has huge overcapacity in every field. You know they have over the years built large over capacity and and because of that they are highly competitive within China. they their margins are very low but but because of they they have lot of government support and stuff like that. So so when they start to sell at a uh at a depressed p”

“As a country we have to build our industrial base. Our manufacturing is only 15% of our GDP. We ought to get to 25%. And I've been saying it in many many forums that we we want to become we must get to 25 not 35 what China is but even 25 at least we we have to be to get there we have to build our industry base to build the industry base the industry must make money to reinvest otherwise you can't do it shareholders w”

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