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Dhirubhai Ambani: The Indian business icon
He was Dhirubhai Ambani. He was a genius. He had an extra ordinary talent. He was creative.
He mastered the secrets of business. He was the founder of Reliance Industries. Dhirubhai
Ambani changed the stream of Indian industries. He was the pioneer and hero of this success
story. He changed the investment scenario of India and surely the shape of Indian stock market.
Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian business icon and gem of the gems. He is a man rags to riches.
He was undoubtedly the most talented businessman of his time. He amazed the world with his
success stories. He became a celebrity in India and overseas.
He was born in Gujarat but became a global personality. Kokila Ben Ambani, his devoted wife
supported him and always remained behind him in all his achievements.
What are the secrets of his amazing growth? What made him Dhirubhai Ambani? How he
became an industrial tycoon, a global conglomerate? Why are people in India, The US, The UK,
EU, Canada and elsewhere in the world his fan?
He used some secrets throughout his life-time to become a business tycoon. Some of them are
as follow:
Business Secret No. 1: Gather information, whatever it may be. Gather information about
Governments be local, state, central or international. Gather information about products,
companies, consumers, markets, people, services, politics and anything, just anything and
everything. Do not forget to get information of your competitors. Dhirubhai Ambani had mastered
this secret. It was in his practice to gather information about anything and everything.
He used to gather information, analyzed and processed those. He was also able to find
opportunities out of those news and information. He was also quick to disburse those information
to his sub-ordinates when and where required.
One of my friends, Prof. M.L. Sisodia, a senior professor of physics and research scholar once
told me a story about Dhirubhai Ambani. The story shows his extra ordinary ability in gathering
information. Mr. Sisodia had undergone a bye-pass surgery after a heart attack. Just after few
days of his surgery his son was called on for an interview with Dhirubhai Ambani.
Dhirubhai wanted him for a senior position in his company. The very first question Dhirubhai
Ambani asked him was " How is your father". This instance alone is enough to describe his
capability of information gathering. We have to remember that it was not an Internet age.
investors. Even he went to the extent of challenging the law. Once he converted a nonconvertible debentures into shares. Share holders got enormous profit, but it was against the law.
He fought against that law and the government was compelled to change it.
Dhirubhai Ambani had highest number of shareholders with him in his time. He boosted market
capitalization of BSE. He brought millions of share holders under his umbrella, many of them
were first time in the stock market.
Dhirubhai Ambani followed these secret techniques of business throughout his lifetime. He was
not much interested in the books or magazines about management. Rather he left those for his
sub-ordinates, his managers. He had an appetite, a never ending hunger for news.
He had given some ideas which are the Business Mantras indeed. One who follow these..... are
at the doorstep of success. A recent Bollywood movie "Guru" has depicted his life.
These are some secrets of a pioneer. Starting from a lower level employee of a gas filling station,
he became an industrial giant, a global conglomerate. His name was included in the list of
Fortune 500. He could manage an yearly revenue of $ 78 billions in his life time. No Indian
industrialist could achieve that level up to that time. His ambition was not ended with that. He
was dreaming of World No.1. He could not achieve that because of his untimely death.
However, it has been achieved through the Reliance industries that he founded. Dhirubhai
Ambani is world No.1 today, though after his death. The assets of Mukesh and Anil ambani (
Both sons of Dhirubhai Ambani, between whom his assets were distributed ) together has
crossed Bil Gates of Microsoft corporation.
Parenting secrets of Dhirubhai Ambani to grow Mukesh and Anil
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