I remember one of my conversation with my dad (when I was a school kid) at a small hotel while we were eating there, I calculated how much the hotel earns and how much is his profit approx. I told him it is as equal to what you earn or more than that. ha ha.
That was a good conversation. He told me a lot of things his experiences and learning about business. He said the target is earning money only, and people generally go to any extent for achieving it. The basic quality one should have to do business is to lie.
Well that created a bad thinking on my mind on people who do business. (I even thought that the people who do business are rich because they suck the money from the commons by cheating)
But later when I joined college, I could meet good people and it questioned my basic beliefs. The best one is the above. It made me to think on how each and everything can be turned into business though I was not interested much in starting up own immediately after college as I seriously lacked direction.
A big truth is that in most of the families (in south India especially) are brought up by saying study hard and then one can get good 'job in esteemed organisations'. Entrepreneurship is not a term used at all. It is actually looked down. Usually people who do not get jobs try their hands in it.
That is not the scene now. One of my friend in college, is now a CEO of logistics company. What he did? He invested in lorries and he is having considerable amount of profits now. And one more guy, left his job and started a drinking water purifying plant in Coimbatore. Well I can list down more and more people I have known who are now 'real young masters of business administration'
I had a conversation with one such young entrepreneur, and few important things I could find is,
-- he was not interested working for a company (he indirectly abused me by saying they are giving peanuts to what we do)
-- he went to streets of India to understand business. (The guy drove a truck for a month to understand pros and cons)
-- the risk taking ability
-- the best one I found is, the urge for money. He spoke to me like as if he wanted to turn time, space and his life into money.
It made me feel great. But when I asked myself about it, I was still a BIG NO. In fact many. Hence we are "working for" company. ha ha. (we are people who like what we do!! ha ha)
