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What is success?
Everyone wants to be successful
in life. Success is the
realisation of goal. Success
is a state of mind. How
does it come about? How
can we be success rather
than be a success? We are
talking of a radical change
of definition here. Success
as a function of who we
are rather than what we
do.
Most of all, though, our
greater hold on reality
helps us to intuit our interconnection
with the universe. This
realisation helps create
vision and chart the goals
we
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need to reach complete and
perfect success. We must
understand that success
should be holistic. It is
useless to get success in
business at the cost of
one’s health or one’s
relationship. Set your goal.
Make sure that your vision
is large. Don’t limit
yourself when dreaming dreams,
it doesn’t cost to
dream big dream. Whatever
you wish is also the wish
of the universe. If so,
then the Universe will always
support you and you will
realise your dreams, fulfil
your desires. It works like
a self-fulfilling prophecy.
People say success is a result of
good judgement. Shri
Krishna tells Arjuna
in Bhagwat
Geeta that “both
good and bad decisions are good for
you, but indecision will kill you”.
Indeed indecision and inaction have
seen the death of many great dreams
in history.
Make God a partner in all your endeavours;
keep him by your side. Remember how
before the Mahabharata War both Duryodhan
and Arjun
go to Shri
Krishna beseeching
him to be their ally, Krishna given
then a choice that one side will have
entire army and other side him alone.
Duryodhan
chooses the army and Arjun
God. Result, Arjun
won the war. In another words surrender
yourself to the God. Do you work without
attachment to the fruit? To do and
succeed in big things, you must get
out of your comfort zone. Our seers
used to leave that place where they
become too cosy and comfortable.
A classic case study of success through
sheer slogging is the
Marwari business community.
Marwari
work 24 hours. Even
when they come home, they make phone
calls. They dream of work all night
and this characteristic has percolated
over generations. So, focus your energies
in a concentrated manner on your goal
and then start perspiring for it.
The choice of the goal and effort
taken in reaching it are complementary.
If you want to achieve something for
the love of it, and not because it
is the done thing, no amount of hard
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SABEER
BHATIA |
Sabeer
Bhatia
at the age of
27 sold his company
to Bill Gates
for $ 400 million!
He used his ‘negotiating’
attitudes acquired
when he was growing
up and observed
his ‘servants’
buying fruits
and vegetables!
Fortunately today
we have hundreds
of ‘Sabeer
Bhatias’
and many many
thousands are
in the making.
Bhatia was born and raised in the southern city of Banglore. His
father, who held a high post in the Ministry of Defence, and his
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education. Their only son did not disappoint them. “On parent-teacher
days the teachers would just say ‘Sir why did you come?You
don’t have to come! We tell Sabeer to solve questions on the
blackboard for us,” says Bhatia senior. Like many Indian parents,Balev
and Daman hoped their son would secure a lifetime position with
a big multinational firm. Sabeer had different ideas.
“I was pretty entrepreneurial even as a school boy,”
he says. When a college opened nearby he decided to open a sandwich
shop and drew up his first business plan. “Then my mom said
‘Stop thinking about these things and go and study’.
Bhatia is persistent, focused, disciplined and a superior human
being. Doing his Master’s in Science at Stanford, he attended
lectures by such legends as Steve Jobs of Apple and Scott McNealy
and Vinod Khosla of Sun Microsystems. Sabeer Bhatia, the pioneer
in the field of first web-based e- mail- The Hotmail, was born in
Chandigarh in the year 1969. He had his early education at Bishop’s
Cotton School in Pune, then St. Joshop’s college in Banglore.
He earned a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from
the Stanford University. After graduation, Sabeer briefly worked
for Apple Computers as a hardware engineer and firepower Systems
Inc. While working there he was amazed at the fact that he could
access any software on the Internet via a web browser. His success
graph took off exponentially when he, along with his colleague Jack
Smith, set up Hotmail on 5 July 1996.
‘…From Son Of A Professional Couple To $400
Million Success Before He Hit 30…’ |
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SUNIL
MITTAL |
Sunil
Mittal, 45, started off by selling bicycle spares, not
so long ago, to a NASDAQ listening and the title of Ring Master!
For this lad from Ludhiana, with a plain BA degree, speed is the
key to success. Four years ago, he became a small player in the
Indian telecommunications market, the owner of cellular franchises
in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh. Total customer bade, 116,000. Today,
his Bharti Tele Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on
the subcontinent.
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Customer base 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $ 1 billion
expansion that multiplied the size of his network four times in
less than a year. The former bicycles parts maker has acquired the
largest market share nationally with his cash register ringing loud
all the way. THE QUESTION of Bharti’s DNA is something Sunil
Mittal loves to talk about, using management jargon he’s extremely
comfortable with, despite being an average student in college. “With
our speed- to market, we bring about programmed chaos in the opposition’s
camp. The second part of our DNA is that we’ve promised ourselves
to be at least one per cent better than the competition in every
way, whether it’s technology or customer satisfaction. So
ours really is a cross-DNA between that of Reliance and the Tatas.”
He won’t
elaborate on that,
refusing to name
the Ambanis or
the Tatas any
further, but you’ve
got to read between
the lines: he’s
impressed by the
speed and ambition
of Reliance and
with the working
style of the Tatas
(read compassion).
“I cannot
agree with Jack
Welch and his
concept of forced
ranking-eliminating
10 per cent of
employees every
year. We’re
very weak on consequence
management, we
don’t punish
under Performers.”
There’s
another side,
however, to the
chairman and managing
director of Bharti
group: in order
to achieve his
goals, he’ll
do just about
anything. When
Bharti TeleVentures,
the holding company,
was rolling out
nine new circles
recently on the
back of six existing
ones, the quality
were quick to
point out that
the tiger had
bitten off more
than he could
chew.
Confront him with
the question,
and he says it
was all part of
a carefully laid-out
strategy. “Yes,
it certainly affected
the quality, but
when you’re
cleaning the markets,
you’ve to
take your eyes
off the existing
services,”
he says.
‘…Seller
Of Bicycle Parts
To 25,00,000 Mobile
Connections…’ |
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GULSHAN
KUMAR |
He
started out life as a humble fruit juice seller’s son in Darya
Ganj market in Old Delhi. He wanted to make it big in Bombay and
he did, by cooking up innovative ways to pirate popular music. Super
Cassette Industries, his flagship company and its low price high
volume strategy ushered in a musical revolution. Pretty soon he
had the leader of the pack,
HMV India itself, chomping at the bits in order to compete with
him. Using all of his fortunes from
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his music production company in Noida, near Delhi to finance his
film production business, Gulshan Kumar soon became the owner of
a vast 400 crore-rupee empire. He was the highest taxpayer for the
financial year 1992-93. Gulshan started his business in audiocassettes
as his financial position allowed him, very humbly, very small.
Fortunately for him, at that point, the audiocassette had only recently
entered India. That was about the onlyadvantage Gulshan had, of
entering the fray not too late.
Gulshan’s
approach, and
understanding
was natural. The
audiocassette
was a new product,
and the music
business was a
modern and new
business. The
music business
was attractive,
profitable, creative
artistic, and
glamorous.
‘…From
A Fruit Juice
Seller’s
Son To A Music
King…’
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VANDANA
LUTHRA |
Vandana
Luthra is the mastermind behind the country’s largest
and most successful chain of health and fitness centres VLCC (Vandana
Luthra’s Curls and Cures).
She is a graduate from Delhi University and also pursued Cosmetology
from Germany subsequently she did a series of courses in beauty
care, fitness, food, nutrition and skin care from London, Munich
and Paris. She had to convince her parents-in-law and husband who were not in favour of her working when she decided to enter the beauty business.
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Mrs Luthra
opened the 1st fitness centre in 1989 at a time when Indian market
was very nascent and the idea of combining health and beauty was
quite radical to the Indian society. Today she has a chain of 32
outlets all over the country and plans to take VLCC abroad. VLCC
is the world’s first beauty corporate to get the ISO 9001:2000
certification from DNV (Det Norske Veritas).
‘…From
A Daughter-In-Law
To Being Health
& beauty queen…’ |
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SHEHNAZ
HUSSAIN |
Shehnaz
Hussain was married by the age of 15 and by the time she
turned 16, she had become a mother. It was then that the mental
upheaval began and she began getting bored with the drudgery of
endless routine. She decided to fulfil her dreams. The first turning
point in her life came when her husband was posted in Teheran. Once
there, she decided to study cosmetology, but it was very expensive
proposition. So she began working for the Iran Tribune-writing articles
in
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English on various issues and under different names. That’s
how she could finance his training at some of the best institutions
in the West. During her training period she realized the extent
of harm caused to women as a result of chemical ingredients in cosmetics.
She then turned to Ayurveda, which she believed was the ideal alternative
to chemical cosmetics. An important moment was when she entered
the international market for the first time and participated in
the festival of India in 1980. Even though she was given a counter
in the perfumery section of Selfridges, the famous departmental
store in London, she managed to hold her own and let her products
speak for themselves. Her entire consignment sold in three days
and broke the store’s cosmetic sales records for the year.
‘…Getting
Married At 15
To Herbal Queen
To The World…’ |
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SHREEDHARAN |
Shreedharan,
who was born in Chattanur, a small village near Palakkad in Kerala,
does not have much of a social life. “Once in a while I go
to classical music concerts,” he says. He also makes it a
point to visit Kerala at regular intervals to meet relatives. How
many people in Delhi know a man called E. Shreedharan? He is 70.
Should have retired a long time ago with enough achievements to
boast about to his grandchildren. Most of his working life he was
yet another unknown engineer
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until he took up the challenge of building the Konkan Railway that
reduced the Mumbai-Kochi distance by one-third. Everybody said it
was not possible. He defied them all and built India’s
first genuine railway project of any notable size after the British.When
the government was short of money, he raised public bonds and that
was a decade ago when such things were unprecedented. Shreedharan
did not stop there.Everybody laughed when plansto build a metro
rail in Delhi were announced. He is a modest man. It is not the
self-effacing version of modesty which politicians wear, but the
genuine kind. E.Shreedharan, architect of the Konkan Railway and
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71- year-old civil
engineer (“Still
looking forward
to retirement”)
has been selected
as one of the
most outstanding
Asians by Time
magazine.
‘…From
Being Born In
A Small Village
To Delhi’s
Dream Project
Metro Rail…’
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DEEPAK
CHOPRA |
| For
the past decade or so, he has been at the forefront of a major trend
in holistic healing. Since the early 1980s Chopra has successfully
combined his impeccable credentials as a practicing endocrinologist
with his exploration of mind/body medicine. By doing so, he has
dramatically influenced many in traditional medical circles and
helped bring the enormous benefits of holistic medicine to the general
public’s attention.Chopra created a paradigm for exploring
the healing
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process- a model he calls ‘Quantum Healing’. He recalls:
“As doctors we are taught to prescribe tranquillisers for
people who are feeling anxious to promote tranquillity. We give
sleeping pills to people with insomnia. Quantum Healing looks past
all the wonder drugs and modern technology to a natural way of healing
which speaks to an integration of mind and body.” Rather than
turn his back on his conventional training, he extended his practice
to bring together the best of ancient wisdom and modern science.
In 1984 he helped to introduce ayurvedic medicine to United States
and within a year he established anAyurvedic Health Centre for Stress
Management and Behavioural Medicine in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
He was also the founding President of the American Association of
Ayurvedic Medicine.
Since that time,
he has emerged
as one of the
world’s
leading proponents
of this innovative
combination of
Eastern and Western
healing. Chopra
combines ancient
mind/body wisdom
with current anti-aging
research to show
that the effects
of aging are largely
preventable. By
changing your
perception of
aging and by being
aware of your
body and how it
processes intelligence
and experience
you will change
how you age.
Today, Chopra
lectures around
the world making
presentations
to major corporations
and organizations
such as the World
Health Organization
in Geneva, the
United Nations,
and London’s
Royal Society
of Medicine, as
well as a number
of US medicinal
institutions.
‘…From
MoolChand Hospital
To One Of The
Top Ten Authors
Of The World…’ |
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VIRENDER
SEHWAG |
Virender
Sehwag,
the man of the
Indo-Pak cricket
series, was lucky
that his parents
could afford Rs.150
a month for his
cricket training.
When his coach
first spotted
him, he was a
13- year-old local
boy, son of a
grain hawker,
who lived in a
house stuffed
with siblings,
uncles, aunts
and 16 cousins.
He had no dazzling
skills but was
desperate to learn.
Today he is India’s
fearless and dramatic
opener, one of
the most sought
after cricketers
in the country.
To India’s
impoverished youth,
he is the man
of clay astride
the mountain of
the gods.
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Son Of A Humble
Trader To 309
Runs, Wow…’ |
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KAPIL
DEV |
| It
would be an understatement of the millennium if one would call Kapil
Dev one of the greatest all-rounders of not just Indian cricket
but in the history of the game. Such have been the deeds of this
natural cricketer from Haryana that words would not be enough to
describe them. Ever since he took to the game in the late 70s to
the time he called it quits in the mid 90s, he was one of the leading
all rounders in the game. Kapil was a truly inspirational cricketer
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of many famous Indian victory almost single handedly. Captaining
India to win the Prudential World Cup in 1983 obviously was the
highlight of his illustrious career. He came on the scene just when
India’s famed and widely feared spin quarter of Bedi, Prasanna,
Chandrashekhar and Venkatraghavan were nearing the autumn of their
careers. He remained India’s ace strike bowler for a decade
and a half. He chose to remain away from the game after he retired
in 1994 and it was only after critics suggested that he give something
back to the game did he accept the job of Indian Coach in 1999.
But pool results coupled with betting and match fixing scandals
saw a premature end to what could well have been an interesting
challenge to the great all-rounder.
Kapil Dev was
born in a timber
merchant’s
family on January
6th, 1959 in Chandigarh,
Surprisingly for
such a talented
cricketer; there
was never a lineage
of cricket in
his family. However
he had instilled
in him the virtues
of hard work by
his father Ramlal
Nikhanj who himself
was a thorough
perfectionist
and a strict disciplinarian.
Kapil played his
first really competitive
game of cricket
only at the age
of 13. And it
was a complete
accident that
he got a chance
to parade his
skills in that
match.
No sooner did
he realize that
he had some talent
he wanted to excel
in the sport.
The fighter that
he always was
the young lad
was dying to test
his skills against
quality opposition.
His family too
started noticing
his passion for
the game and they
encouraged him
to take up the
game seriously.
His elder brother
Bhushan Dev who
was 3 years older
to Kapil gave
him the biggest
encouragement
and at age 14
Kapil started
playing for DAV
school and college.
Such was his love
for the game that
after he finished
school at 1.30
p.m. he would
race home on his
bicycles and be
home at 1.50 p.m.
After gulping
a quick lunch
he would set out
for the cricket
ground again at
2/15 a.m. only
to be at the cricket
ground at 2.40.
‘…A Focused Mind Is One Of
The Most Powerful Forces In The Universe…’ |
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AVUL
PAKIR JAINULABDEEN
ABDUL KALAM |
Avul
Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the present occupant of
the Rastrapati Bhawan, is the son of a fisherman. He was born at
Dhanushkodi in Rameshwaram district of Tamil Nadu on 15 October
1931, the fifth among seven siblings. His father did not have much
formal education but knew the value of honesty and self-discipline
and passed on these to his son. As a small boy, Kalam used to sell
newspapers in a village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally
smart at school
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but was fascinated by religion and rockets. Initially the missiles
he built crashed and he was made a butt of ridicule. However, he
eventually went on to script the Space Odyssey of India. Dr. Kalam
made significant contributions as Project director to develop India’s
first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III), which successfully
injected the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit in July 1980,
which made India an exclusive member of the Space Club. He took
up academic pursuit as Professor, Technology and Societal Transformation
at Anna University, from November 2001 and was also involved in
teaching and research tasks. Above all he took up a mission to ignite
the young minds for national development by meeting high school
students across the country. He became the 11th President of India
on 25 July 2002 at the age of 72. His focus is on transforming India
into a developed nation by 2020. A vegetarian, his interests include
playing the veena and writing poetry. He has also written two books,
“Igniting Minds: Unleashing the Power Within” and “India
2020: Vision or the New Millenium”. If a nation is known by
its first citizen, then India is a hotbed of scientific talent,
and a developed nation in spirit. His first inspiration was his
science teacher, Sivasubramania Iyer, who taught him in fifth class
how birds fly. He gives four steps to make India better-
1.
Improve yourself
2. Help others
3. Each to plant
two saplings
4. Set yourself
a clear goal.
He
feels at home
with three things.
First, nature,
the beautiful
surroundings at
Rastratipati Bhavan.
Second, he meets
hundreds of children
from various parts
of India. Third,
he still has science
and is guiding
a scientist in
his PhD.
‘…From
Son Of A Fisherman
To President Of
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M.F.
(Maqbool Fida)
HUSSAIN |
M.F.
Hussain,
94, a self-taught
artist, is today
synonymous with
contemporary Indian
art. Born in Maharashtra,
he learnt the
art of calligraphy
quite early in
life. He also
learnt to write
poetry while staying
with one of his
uncles in a madarsa
in Baroda, an
art that has stayed
with him through
his life.
His early education
was very elementary
but Hussain’s
love for drawing
was evident even
at this stage.
Whenever he got
a chance, he would
strap his painting
gear to his bicycle
and ride out to
the surrounding
countryside of
Indore to paint
the landscape.
In 1973 he reached
Mumbai determined
to become an artist,
with hardly any
money and lived
in a cheap room
in a by lane inhabited
by the city’s
dark underbelly.
He became an apprentice
to a painter of
cinema hoardings,
which he would
paint with great
dexterity, perched
on a scaffolding,
sometimes in the
middle of traffic.
He was noticed
for the first
time in 1947 when
he won an award
at the annual
exhibition of
the Bombay.
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DHIRUBHAI
AMBANI |
Dhirubhai
Ambani,
Indian businessman,
was born in Chorwad,
Gujarat, on December
28, 1932. He died
in Bombay on July
6, 2002, aged
69. Dhirubhai
Ambani is survived
by his wife, two
sons and two daughters.
His two American-educated
sons have been
in day-to-day
control of the
company.
Dhirubhai Ambani built up the only Indian business to feature in
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razor-sharp ability to negotiate his way through the labyrinth of
the Indian Political establishment, Ambani single-handedly built
a business empire that in just three decades outgrew corporate houses
such as the Tatas and Birlas, which had dominated the country’s
industrial landscape for nearly a century. The son of a pretty trader
from a remote village in rural Gujarat, Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani-
known as Dhirubhai – moved to Aden as a teenager in order
to seek his fortune. He started work as a petrol station attendant
before taking up a clerical position for an oil company that was
the sole distributor of Shell products there. While in Aden, home
to many Gujarati expatriates, he realized that a discrepancy between
the real sterling exchange rate and the intrinsic value of the silver
content in Aden’s coinage afforded an excellent opportunity
to make money. This arbitrage generated some $ 3,000 in seed money
for the modest trading enterprise that Ambani set up when he returned
to Bombay in 1958. Ambani quickly calculated that further expansion
would depend on access to a cheap source of capital.
To Indian middle-class
salary-earners,
Ambani held out
the promise of
instant enrichment
through the stock
market. But he
was no fly-by-night
operator. Reliance
shares offered
genuine value,
and those fortunate
enough to have
had faith in the
company in the
early years eventually
became millionaires.
In one of his
more candid moments,
he summed up the
secret of his
remarkable success
story.
Think big, think
fast and think
ahead. Born to
a school teacher
father, Ambani
followed this
advice all his
life. He dreamt
big even as a
small boy when
he used to sell
hot snacks to
pilgrims outside
a temple in his
native village.
To any sort of
sniping in the
press, Dhirubhai
has responded
with stoic silence.
Rarely has he
reacted to even
the most stringent
media criticism.
To the Gujarati
business community,
he has assumed
the status of
demi-god. To all
aspiring small-time
entrepreneurs,
he has become
a sort of benchmark
they aim at.
‘…From
A Petrol Pump
Attendant To ‘Kamdhenu’
To Millions Of
Salary Earners…’ |
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KARSANBHAI
K PATEL |
| Karsanbhai
K Patel
of Nirma is the
stuff that legends
are made of Business
journals around
the world have
all featured him
at different times.
He forms the basis
for case studies
at Business Schools.
He is a marketing
wizard, giant
killer, humanitarian
and entrepreneur
par excellence.
He is Mr K K Patel – the man, the myth, the personae behind
Nirma. His story begins at the grassroots and shoots up to the dizzying
heights of the corporate world. Son of a humble farmer from mehsana,
he went to rewrite the rules of Marketing. At the end of the sixties,
Mr K K Patel, a 25 –year old Lab Assistant from Geology &
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of the corporate world. Son of a humble farmer from mehsana, he
went to rewrite the rules of Marketing. At the end of the sixties,
Mr K K Patel, a 25 –year old Lab Assistant from Geology &
Mining Department of the Gujarat Government, started a small scale
business that offered a quality, detergent power, using indigenous
technology, at a third of the prevailing price, without compromising
on the product. The rest is history, and the product, named Nirma
after his daughter, Nirupama, went on to occupy its place in the
sun. The Nirma Institute of Technology (NIT) is a self financed
technical institute offering both undergraduate and postgraduate
degrees in engineering.
It was established in 1995 by industrialist
Dr. Karsanbhai K Patel under the aegis of Nirma Education and Research
Foundation (NERF). The institute is recognized by the All India
Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and is affiliated to Gujarat
University, Ahmedabad.
NIT is located
about 15 kms from
Ahmedabad. It
shares a 100-acre
campus with Nirma
Institute of Diploma
Studies.
‘…From
A Lab Assistant
In GOI To A Though
Competitor Of
A Hindustan Lever…’ |
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NARESH
GOYAL |
Naresh
Goyal,
of Jet Airways,
graduated in Commerce
in 1967. At that
time perhaps he
never thought
that one day he
would own the
premier domestic
airline in India.
After graduating,
he joined the
travel business
as an employee
of the Lebanese
International
Airlines. He undertook
extensive training
in all facets
of the travel
business through
his association
with several foreign
airlines. With
the experience,
expertise and
technical knowledge
thus acquired,
Naresh Goyal associated
himself with Jet
Air (Private)
Limited with the
objective of providing
Sales and Marketing
representation
to a foreign airline
in India. He was
involved in developing
studies of traffic
patterns, route
structures, and
flight scheduling,
all of which have
made him an authority
in the world of
aviation and travel.
In 1991, as part
of the ongoing
diversification
programme of his
business activities,
Naresh Goyal took
advantage of the
opening up the
new Indian and
the enunciation
of the Open Skies
Policy, to set
up Jet Airways
(India) Private
Limited.
Over the years,
Jet Airways has
emerged as India’s
largest and most
preferred private
domestic airline,
maintaining the
highest standards
in flight and
ground service.
‘…From
An Employee Of
A Travel Agency
To The Owner Of
Jet Airways…’
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SUBRATA
ROY |
Subrata
Roy of Sahara Group, the multifaceted entrepreneur, started
off some 25 years ago with Rs. 2000 in a small town of Gorakhpur
in Uttar Pradesh. Today he has built up an empire with assets worth
more than Rs. 5,000 crore. A management guru, featured on the BBC,
his business style has been studied by the Japanese. A star-struck
small town boy who organizes star-studded nights and even dances
at these shows. An Author, who is his own book. An enigma.
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for Sahara, Success has been spectacular!
Subrata Roy is the country’s most bizarre business baron.
Simply consider the designation of the founder and boss of the extremely
high profile yet supremely secretive Sahara Group: managing worker
and chief guardian. His company doesn’t have a headquarter,
it has a command office. His employees are supposed to greet one
another only one-way: right hand placed on heart, and a “Jai
Sahara”. Who is
this Man?
Subrata Roy is a hard working, brilliant and fearless entrepreneur.
He is an honest, caring leader who shares most of his profits with
his employees. He’ll always be there for you in times of trouble:
he is an elder brother, father, god.
‘…From
Rs 2000 To A Business
Empire Of Rs 5000
Crore…’
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AZIM
PREMJI |
| Azim
Premji, 54, Head of Wipro Group, has a story beginning
with vegetable oil and ending (at least for the time bending) as
a top Indian concern in information technology. Premji lost his
father when he was, 22, and left studies in order to take charge
of his home situation. His family own a small manufacturing unit
for Vanaspati oil and soaps. Plunging headlong into the available
resources, he combined hard work with smart work to modernize the
business, hire professional managers and diversify into soaps and
hydraulic power systems and finally, information technology in 1979.
All through this, he never compromised on the core values of integrity
and quality, and the human resource techniques he employed in developing
his employees, for example, offering learning programmes to develop
their technical and managerial skill. Today, Wipro is the second
largest exporter of software services with more than 6, 200 software
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offices both in India and the US.
Success: As a
leader he was committed and motivated towards business. His principle
to work hard and smart, which he believed, is the only way to keep
on top of the demands, had lead the way for Wipro to grow as one
of the leading companies in the country. And the leader himself
is identified as the Businessman of the year.
Vision:
He has a clear
vision for Wipro,
like a lighthouse,
showing the way,
slightly beyond
reach, but not
an impossible
dream. He believes
that the future
will see significant
changes in technology,
economy and society.
But what will
remain unchanged
is the need of
the customer for
an organization
with a human face.
Wipro, with the
core human values
in mind, along
with integrity,
innovative solutions
and value for
money, will use
these values to
grow into the
future.
The richest Indian,
with a net worth
of $ 6.90 billion,
travels economy
class and stays
in value-for-money
hotels. No family
members works
at the group,
and Premji has
made in clear
that his sons,
Tariq and Rishad,
both students,
will have to earn
a place in the
company.
A very private
person, Premji
welcomes international
competition. “It
raises product
quality and expands
the market,”
he says.
His reaction to
becoming the richest
Indian: I feel
like a zoo animal.
Common factor
with Bill Gates:
Was forced to
drop out of college.
Executive tic:
Does not stay
in 5-star hotels.
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Owner Of A Family
Business To Managing
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N.R.
NARAYANA MURTHY |
N.R.
Narayana Murthy of Infosys is a famous man for al long
time now, more for the breadth and depth of dreams he created for
the entire nation. Son of a schoolteacher father who taught in the
instilled values early in his child, Murthy’s ideology, company
values and generous donations to charity reflect the same. In the
initial stages of his enterprise, which he founded with six other
friends in 1981, he had to mortgage his wife Sudha’s jewellery
for Rs. 10,000 to raise funds.
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And
he followed that up with a good measure of grit, determination and
forward thinking. The rest is history. As his share value soars
high, he remains down to earth and filled with humility, still believing
in “simple living, high thinking”. That is Murthy for
you. The dreamer and the doer. Mr. Murthy has received several honours
and awards. He was listed as one of the Top Entrepreneurs of the
year by Business Week and was Business India’s Businessman
of the Year, the most coveted of the Indian Corporate world.
Entrepreneurial Thoughts of Narayan Murthy:
• Our fundamental philosophy is to synergize the organisational
objectives and individual aspirations.
• “Chance favours a prepared mind” is an apt saying.
• I think the primary reason for our growth is that we opened
up our minds and said we would learn from people who were better
than us and we would compete with a positive mindset is really the
strategy that has worked.
• In our line of business, the main assets are our people.
• If our assets walk out physically drained out, it’s
our responsibility as leaders to make sure that they walk back the
next morning mentally and physically enthusiastic and energetic.
• I define “empowerment” as synergizing the organizational
objectives and individual aspirations.
• I always keep telling my colleagues that there are only
four attributes of an organisation that will result in sustained
success. These are speed, imagination, excellence in execution and
system that measure and enhance the rate of improvement.
• I think it is important that all your beliefs and principles
become second nature to you. You should not even feel that you are
making an effort to be what you want to be. It should be effortless.
Once you do that, I think its very simple.
‘…From
Son Of A School
Teacher To Employer
Of Hundreds Of
Crore Walas…’ |
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WALT
DISNEY |
The
creator of Mickey
Mouse
and founder of
Disneyland®
and Walt Disney
World® Theme
Parks was born
in Chicago, Illinois,
on December 5,
1901. His father,
Elias Disney,
was Irish-Canadian.
Raised on a farm
near Marceline,
Missouri, Walt
became interested
in drawing at
an early age,
selling his first
sketches to neighbours
when he was only
seven years old.
In August 1923,
Walt Disney left
Kanas City for
Hollywood with
nothing but a
few drawing materials,
$ 40 in his pocket,
and a completed
animated and live-action
film. Mickey Mouse
was created in
1928.
Disney gave audiences
fascinating insights
into the world
of wild animals
and taught the
importance of
conserving our
nation’s
outdoor heritage.
Disneyland, launched
in 1955 as a fabulous
$ 17 million Magic
Kingdom, soon
increased its
investment tenfold
and had entertained,
by its third decade,
more than 250
million people,
including presidents,
kings and queens,
and royalty from
all over the globe,
Walt Disney World
opened to the
public as scheduled
on October 1,
1971. Epcot Center
opened on October
1, 1982 Walt Disney
did more to touch
the hearts, minds,
and emotions of
millions of Americans
than any other
man in the past
century.
‘…From
$40 In His Pocket
To Inventor Mickey
Mouse & Donald
Duck…’
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BILL
GATES |
Bill
Gates
was born on October
28, 1955 into
an affluent Seattle
family. He had
a vision as a
teenager that
every business
and household
should have a
computer. The
realisation of
Bill Gates’
vision has changed
the world. He
attended the Harvard
University. He
founded the Lakeside
Programming Group
in 1971-1974.
He is at present
the Chairman and
Chief Executive
Officer, Microsoft
Corporation. He
was honoured with
the National Medal
of Technology
in 1992.
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Gates
worked as a page at the State capital in Olympia, Washington and
in Washington D.C. Confidence and intelligence are two traits that
helped Gates obtain his goals. Mathematics, business and computing
were fields in which Gates had keen interests. Gates graduated from
Lakeside in 1973 and enrolled in Harvard University to study mathematics
or law. In April 1975, Gates and Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Microsoft would sell its BASIC system
to MITS, NCR and Intel. On January 1, 1979, Bill Gates moved Microsoft
and its sixteen employees from Albuquerque to Seattle, Washington.
Gates thought that recruiting programmers would be easier from the
site. Microsoft developed a standard for hiring new employees. Only
the most gifted and intelligent new college graduates would be hired.
On March 13, 1986,
Microsoft went
public on the
Stock Exchange.
At thirty-one,
Gates joined the
Gatesionaires
club and became
the richest man
in the United
States. Bill Gates
has transformed
the computing
world in the short
twenty-five year
interval since
he first learned
BASIC on the GE
machine.
‘…From
A Page To A Dreamer
& Do-er By
Becoming Richest
Man Of The World…’ |
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RUTH
HANDLER |
Since
Handler’s
creation, named
for her daughter
Barbara,
was introduced
in 1959, it has
become an American
icon and a touchstone
of cultural politics.
The original blue-eyed,
blond fashion
model has morphed
over the decades
into a variety
of ethnic looks
and has had many
careers, from
astronaut to veterinarian,
More than 1 billion
have been sold
in 150 countries.
“My whole
philosophy of
Barbie was that
through the doll,
the little girl
could be anything
she wanted to
be,” Handler
wrote in a 1994
autobiography.
“Barbie
always represented
the fact that
a woman has choices.”
“Over and
over I’ve
had it said to
me by women,”
Handler told the
Association Press
in 1994. “She
was much more
than a doll for
them. She was
part of them.”
Barbie’s
birth came at
a time when the
usual doll was
a baby. Handler
decided to create
a more mature
toy after noticing
that her daughter
liked to play
with paper cutout
dolls of teen-agers
and career women.
Barbie debuted
at the American
Tay Fair in New
York City in 1959,
it was an instant
hit and in its
first year 351,
000 dolls were
sold at $3 each.
Barbie went on
to make a fortune
for Mattel, which
sold not only
versions of the
doll but an expanding
number of outfits
and accessories,
not to mention
Barbie’s
boyfriend Ken,
named for Handler’s
son; her little
sister, Skipper,
and pals Midge
and Christie.
Later dolls were
named for Handler’s
grandchildren.
Handler was born
Ruth Mosko, the
youngest of 10
children of Polish
immigrants who
settled in Denver.
She moved to Southern
California at
19, later marrying
her high school
boyfriend and
studying industrial
design.
‘…From
A Mother To A
Seller Of Over
1 Billion Barbie
Dolls…’
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