Successful business persons of India

[cacofonus]

hi...do u know abt subrata roy sahara...one of the most sucessful business persons in india...he started with an investment of 2000rs in mid 1970`s ...and now he is has an asset base of 20,000 crore rs.... hats off to him....i would like to know more abt such people...u can share ur knowledge here...!!

[lucifer-in-disguise]

Mr.Narayana Murty of Infosys, a firm believer in the concept of socialism in the late 70\'s donated all his wealth to charities, but later realiseed it is the \"creation of wealth\"/capitalism, rather a answer to solve the miseries.....started infosys in 1981, n now u all know, he is listed in the top 25 CEO\'s of the world, along with Mr.Gates, dell, larryelison, groves........hats off!!!!

[Shahed]

Lt. Gulshan Kumaar... Once he used to sell cassettes shuttling between shops.

[khajabi]

Prince Waleed Bin Talal, he started with $10k which was given by his father as pocket money. Now he is one among the top businessmen of the world.

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Dhirubhai Ambani of Reliance. Started as a \"Chelwari\" (cut-pieces) salesman, making rounds on his bicycle......The rest is history. Amazing thing about Dhirubhai is that neither he had college degrees nor he made his money in high-tech product or services.....There\'s a hope for a lot of those small time businessmen!

[hardcoder]

The best example in this board - Kulcha Hyderabadi started with a small shop, now has a much bigger establishment

[khajabi]

Kulcha bhai, kain apna paan ka dabba bhi isi silsile ki kadi to nai....hoooon, dhirubhai ambani...... ooohhh, bade choope rustam hai ustaad.

[shruti.]

Aziz Premji of Wipro......complete facelift and transformation of the company into its successful present...defenitely one of the most successful and richest business person of India.

[lucifer_in_disguise]

why not, for the person who has rtetained 70% of the wipro shares into his pocket, Mr.Azim Premji has to be the richest person, Mr.Narayana Murthy onthe other hand has less than 20% of the stake in his own......no wonder million Azim Premji\'s and amabanis come and go in the history of mankind......could any one of the Indian ever make it in the best 25 CEO\'s if the planet before.......take care, and judge for yourself before you regard some one as the greatest business person....

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Khajabi.....Apke moon mein ghee shakkar.... woh boltey na \"You are not poor if you dont have a penny, you are poor if you dont have a dream\"!....dekho agay kya hota hai.

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

It’s a great honor to be rated as one of the best 25 CEOs on the planet Earth. I did not find Mr. Murthy’s name in the top 100 CEOs ranking by both Forbes and Fortune. Niether Infosys is listed in top 500 companies, nor it is among the list of category \"100 Best companies to work for\", I did not find Mr. Murthy in the list of top 500 CEO\'s - ranked by compensation.....Could you tell us your source of information and the criteria used to rank Mr. Murty among top 25 CEOs on the Planet Earth? Thank you.

[cacofonus]

kulcha bhai...frm ur way way of posting...and the good amt of GK u have...its hard to believe that u were once a pan dabba wala...was it ur hobby to run a pan dabba.......or u did for ur living...i guess u also had ur education in all saints...which is one of the good schools in hyd...all this contradict with another...hope u`ll clarify...??

[lucifer_in_disguise]

Kulchaa, read below and know for your self: n further if you want the complete list of top 25 that time, i can give you even that, Mr. Murthy was ranked 18th in 25 in these rankings...published by Times magazine from washington.......


Narayana Murthy among world\'s top 25 businessmen
Saturday, January 19 2002 16:00 Hrs (IST)


Washington: \'Time\' magazine has included Narayana Murthy of Infosys among the world\'s top 25 business people.

It said that Murthy (55) was among India\'s richest men and Infosys, the company he founded in 1981, was the first Indian firm to be listed on NASDAQ, the US stock exchange for tech firms.

\"Murthy\", says the magazine, \"has not sold his soul for money and success. One of the country\'s most admired men, he is vigilant about his employees\' well-being, granting stock options, building exercise facilities and spreading values as much as wealth.\"

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Thanks Luci..You are quoting a news report. Not something published in \"Time\" Magazine...If possible, give me \"Time\" issue number or publication date. Was it \"Time\" Asia, USA or Global..Thanks again....Please note this enquiry is not because I dont believe you or I have doubts about the positioning of Mr. Murthy among leading CEOs and his achievements, I just want to read it. Thanks again.

[lucifer_in_disguise]

yes, Kulchaa but unfortunately i am not able to find that info on the net, but i remember to have read the magazine personally, it was uvcourse TIME-USA, and later even the infosys web site had this on there home page for a long time as it was indeed a big achievement, but as you know now Mr.Murthy has stepped down as the ceo of that company, he is acting more like a mentor......it is not present any more on there website.....finally regarding the criteria for selecting him in the best ceo, it was the max no of millionaire emplyees on board that company created relatively, made him one of the best ceo....

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Lucifer, thought I should share this with you. Mr. Murthy\'s humility and modesty is most impressive. Wish we had more people like him. The following excerpt is from \"Time\'s\" October, 2000 issue.------\"Technology has a big role to play in a vast, resource-starved country like India,\" says Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy, 54, one of the software billionaires. Murthy, son of a mathematics teacher from southern India, won a scholarship to the IIT in Kanpur and in 1981 set up Infosys with $1,000 of savings he pooled together with six other founders. \"It took us a year to get a telephone,\" recalls Murthy. \"It would take two years to get a license to import a computer.\" He almost folded the company in 1990 but managed to hold on until the early round of economic liberalizations came through in 1991. Today Infosys has a market capitalization of $10 billion, and Murthy played host to Gates in India last month. \"We\'ve got to go global,\" Murthy says, although his lifestyle is anything but Silicon Valley-flash. He doesn\'t employ domestic servants, which is unusual for someone of his stature in India, and begins his day by cleaning the toilets in his spartan, two-bedroom house in Bangalore, a practice inspired by Mohandas Gandhi. \"Life is incomplete in a society like ours unless you make an effort to reduce the difference between the haves and the have-nots,\" Murthy explains

[Kulcha Hyderabadi]

Cacofonus buddy, there\'s no contradiction or confusion. I still own the business, plus an I-Cafe and if things go right, my fruit juice and sandwich deli will start in six weeks time....after all \"Rome was not built in a day.\"

[khajabi]

Kulcha sait, allah aapko aur tarrakhi de, manzil pe jaane ka raasta saaf ho na chahiye, matlab, chunna sirf paan po lagana....

[cacofonus]

hi kulcha...this wil clarify re doubts on infosys...infosys wipro and TCS are among the world class software companies....this is an extarct from hindustantimes...dated 20th june...read this...

\"\"\"\"\"If the figures bandied about are to be believed, information technology is one of the biggest industries in India. However, only two Indian IT companies made Business-Week magazine\'s IT-100 list for 2002.

The two companies -Wipro and Infosys were the only two companies to make the cut. Infosys came in at 71st place and Wipro in 98th.

On a positive note for Indian companies however, both Indian entrants made the cut of the top 10 most profitable companies on the list.

On profitability Infosys was third and Wipro fifth with return on equity (ROE) of 37.2 and 30.3 per cent, respectively.
Korea\'s Samsung Electronics figured at the top of the class, closely followed by several Taiwanese companies.

Several big names found themselves fighting for the lower ranks. Microsoft was in 27th place, Oracle in 53rd, Intel in 56th and Hewlett-Packard ranked 99th. Infosys has improved from a lowly 102nd last year to break into the top 100, Wipro on the other hand went downwards from 87th last year.

Next year however, more Indian companies might make the grade with Tata Consultancy Services being the prime candidate as it is shortly expected to become a listed company.
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[cacofonus]

dear lucifer...i don think its proper to judge a business man based on the %age of shares that he retains....for that matter wipro pays much more than infosys does to its employees....wipro has the biggest salaried men in its firm...paying upto 5 core per annum..(highest)....

[lucifer_in_disguise]

further kulchaa, i was surprised myself when i visited infosys company in bangalore, All the big ppl like PM of Japan, Mr.Mori, Mr.TonyBlair etc.....n many more when ever visit India, they address, Infosians, i was astonished by the type of visitors this company had in the past 5 years....ne way lets hope some of us too should reach those summits soon!!

[lucifer_in_disguise]

ya...........ur right , but if you think the other side of it, he has issued 60% of shares in public, which means more liquidity, more value per share,n some thing different...looked any way he really gained a lot of attention from all over....

[Tarun]

Dhirubhai Ambani: A brief profile


TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2002 10:40:46 AM ]

\"I am not a loser,\" said Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, the man behind the success of the Reliance group.


Ambani, who founded the petrochemicals giant Reliance group, was born in 1932 in Chorwad village in Gujarat. He started out as a labourer, graduated to becoming a spice trader, and then set up his first cloth mill in Ahmedabad; finally building one of India\'s largest companies. The story of the small-time trader who within just four decades created a globocorp is part of Indian market folklore.
Dhirubhai has many firsts to his credit - from building the Rs 90 billion Hazira project to the GDR by an Indian company reporting a whopping net profit of Rs 10 billion. But one of his greatest achievements lies in catalysing shareholders\' spirit in India through bonuses and dividends.


Reliance Industries, which went public in 1977 with one of the largest public offerings of its time, has the largest number of shareholders at over 3.5 million. Ambani is credited with shaping India\'s equity culture, attracting retail investors in a market dominated by state-run financial institutions.


And today, Dhirubhai is easily the most popular businessman in India. The group, which began life as a tiny trading outfit in the narrow by-lanes of Mumbai\'s textile market, is now India\'s second-largest company, with sales of Rs 58,000 crore and annual net profit of Rs 4,110 crore.


Reliance is only the second Indian entry in the Fortune 500 list; at number 425, it is ahead of giants such as Marks & Spencer, Christian Dior and Northwest Airlines.


Reliance Industries is now spread across the textile value-chain - from petrochemicals to fabrics. Its massive economies of scale make it the biggest player of its kind by both Indian and global standards. The essence of Reliance\'s strategy: presence across the value chain to offset any downturn in individual businesses.


Interestingly, Ambani\'s success has dwarfed the controversies that surround him, notably his spat with Bombay Dyeing\'s Nusli Wadia.


Ambani lives in Mumbai with his wife, two sons - Mukesh and Anil - and their wives. He does not believe in retirement and continues to create ripples in the corporate world.