Saturday, December 29, 2007



There is nothing called the End!

The times are such that every single youth in the country is dreaming of becoming the next tata or ambani or a mittal. The days are gone when people who do not get jobs resort to business as their last hope. In the past few years we have witnessed so many bright young chaps boldly rejecting fabulous international job offers and trying to start their own ventures be it a eat-out or a holiday resort or simple net cafes.
Though most of them are successful in their own way, it should also be noted that the society has started to acknowledge and accept failures. Rather, some high profile concern in the Silicon Valley has openly stated that it would prefer those who have an unsuccessful start-up history to their top managerial jobs.
Being a premier institute admitting in the best of the Indian youth to its courses, many in our college feel accomplished after landing on to a job at the campus. Even those who had those big dreams have started calculating the opportunity costs and few have already decided to grow with their company itself.
Before arriving at such a conclusion, remember that we fall in the top 1 percent country’s youth (at least that’s what statistics say!) and if not us then no one else can even think to follow their dreams. And about the fears of risk etc. I would like to point out that we will not be reduced to rags and start living on the streets if at all failure befalls us. Opportunities are plenty and are everywhere. It is for you to spot and reap or rape them.

I am remembered about this man who makes money in a astonishing way.

The Mumbai metro trains run fully packed day and night. Any one who travels without a valid ticket can be fined up to Rs. 500. Spot checking is carried out occasionally and the person getting caught is fined and a proper bill is given. Now, this brilliant fellow though uneducated has devised something like an insurance plan in which he gives a identification card to his customers at a price which is half the price of the regular season ticket and for the concerned month the customer is entitled to full re-imbursement of the fined amount. So the customer does not sweat or panic on seeing the Traveling Ticket Examiner, he coolly pays the fine but remembers to collect the receipt.
None of us would have ever thought of this idea, though illegal it is innovative and first-class!

So just before deciding your path say to yourself: ‘This is my ONLY life!!

4 comments:

Rivat Hanss said...

hey got your msg! thanks :) will surely start a company myself!

Vijay Sundaram said...

dei.. machi.. don worry da.. this is surely on the cards.. :) first let me gain some experience and earn a few pennies before i can support myself in the event of a failure.. :)

Anonymous said...

very inspiring da!

gr8!

Anonymous said...

It is a very good read especially the anecdote. The bigger question you have left unanswered is that, "Does the end justify the means".