The Indian billionaire and industrialist, Shiv Nadar is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies Limited. He is the third richest businessman in India with an estimated net worth of US $31 billion. He is a dedicated businessman and a great philanthropist who has worked from the welfare of children.
He was born in a small village of Tamil Nadu and did his schooling there. He began his career in 1967 with a job at Walchand group’s Cooper Engineering Ltd. in Pune but soon gave it up to find his own venture HCL in 1976. He had made a lot of efforts in the firm and converted it to a large scale IT enterprise. He also invested his income and efforts to provide education to unpriviledged children through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. In 2008, he was honoured with Padma Bhushan for his spectacular efforts in the IT industry.
His success and his journey can inspire millions of hardworking individuals. So let’s have a look at his motivational and some of the remarkable quotes which can leave a deep impact on our lives and way of living.
- “When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent oneself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead in times of rapid change and rid ourselves of stickiness in any form in the business.”
- “Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.”
- “If you are calm about your ambitions, you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.”
- “A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That’s how an institution becomes one.”
- “Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.”
- “It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.”
- “The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision.”
- “If you are calm about your aspiration and ambitions, then you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.”
- “Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.”
- “We need a world-class institution which will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life.”
- “I admire companies that give back to communities. It is absolute essential for organisations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. This is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.”
- Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.
He was from a middle class family and lost his father at a young age. He has become such a successful businessman with his own hardwork and dedication. He sets the path for other businessmen and proves to be a great motivation for those struggling.
