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I was part of a casual drawing room discussion, several years ago, among people who can be called achievers themselves. It was a gathering of highly placed people who had all the trappings of success and were in cushy well paying jobs. The course of conversation meandered to successful tycoons who remain an interesting and unfathomable breed within themselves. Mr. Azim Premji was by then an established member of the billionaires club and yet many called him a man with ‘lala mentality’. His personal frugality was a point of censure by his detractors. Someone remarked that with his wealth he should probably do some good for thousands of people he employed. It seemed like a surprising expectation and then someone else pointed out that Mr. Mukesh Ambani, another billionaire, was splurging on a billion dollar residence when there were so many poor people who could benefit from the housing he could donate with the said amount. These casual light remarks set me thinking and I countered with my own point of view.
I asked them about their own net worth and the percentage that was tied up in their own residences. It turned out that most of us live in residences that are worth more than fifty or sixty percent of our total net worth. By those standards Mr. Ambani was constructing a residence that was worth only a small fraction of his total net worth. It was the easiest thing to comment upon the generosity expected from them but it was tough to enumerate the benefits that these critics were providing to their own domestic help, driver etc.
What I brought back from that discussion has stayed with me. It illustrated aptly that it is the easiest thing in the world to comment or advice. It is another matter altogether to look within and evaluate what we have done ourselves. Since then Mr. Premji has become the only Indian to have donated such huge amount of wealth.
It is notable that these people have achieved everything based on their initiative, vision and hard work. People like these should be venerated instead of the persecution they face from the socialist souls amongst us.
Revere success because it is hard won. Deify the great achievers and most importantly let’s try to be ones ourselves.
Kamal Wadhera Founder & CEO
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tcy@tcyonline.com
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