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be the best version of humans that you could possibly be. You just have to follow your nature
and act accordingly. It is this very quality that is lacking from us all these days. You pick any
sector imaginable; whether it’s education, industry, medicine, or even politics, we are in stark
need of capable humans. We don’t want only subservient people to serve us passively. We
want a capable workforce that is indeed skilled and up to the task. Hence, being the best
version of a human being is the first ingredient for success.
When initially I was struggling in my business, I was fraught with negative thoughts. I would
often persistently search for success but without any avail. I didn’t have anything special
about me, nor did I possess any special skill to sail through the business arena. I was also not
well-resourced, and my forefathers had left me almost nothing, because they themselves
were all farmers living on meagre income. But one day I got hold of a book called ‘Billion Dollar
Book’. Amid other fascinating details, the book presented the success philosophy of 300
Billionaires. I was thrilled to learn that I already possessed almost 90% of what the book
depicted how a billionaire
should be like. They were
naturally ingrained in my
b e h a v i o u r f r o m t h e
beginning and I was starting
to feel that I was going to
succeed, naturally. So
r a t h e r t h a n b e i n g
despondent about our
p o s i t i o n i n l i f e o r
complaining about our
circumstances, we should
c o n s t a n t l y w o r k o n
i m p r o v i n g o u r s e l v e s
naturally in the direction of
being our best versions, and
success will be ours for
sure. First deserve then
desire.
The next thing I want to talk about is the difference between Price and Value. Not everyone
with money is considered valuable, and not everyone who’s revered as valuable possesses
wealth or money. To tell you more on this, I’m reminded of an English king, maybe 100 years
ago, who was wealthier than anybody’s imagination. He ruled over 25-30% of the world
population and was the king of almost 33% of the land on earth, India included. On the other
end, during the same time as the king, there lived our Mahatma Gandhiji, a real salt-of-the-
earth character, covering his body with only required clothes and owning nothing more than
that. He had a total wealth of next to zero. Fast forward that to now. That king from 100 years
back has remained quite oblivious to our memory. If I estimate, today there might only be a
puny number of roughly 25 crores or so people who actually remember him. On the contrary,
Gandhiji is certainly commemorated by at least 300-400 crore people worldwide. Not
because Gandhiji was wealthy, but because he was valuable and priceless. That is exactly

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