Dhirubhai Ambani's Birth Anniversary: 10 Quotes By Him That Will Inspire You To Dream Big

Besides being the birthday of Tata Group¡¯s former chairman Ratan Tata, December 28, also marks the birth anniversary of Reliance Industries¡¯ founder Dhirubhai Ambani.

Born on December 28, 1932, Dhirubhai Ambani set up Reliance Industries in the year 1958. His vision and business acumen still serve as an inspiration to millions around the world, making people believe in dreaming big and working towards turning them into reality.

So, on Dhiribhai Ambani¡¯s birth anniversary today, here are 10 quotes by the Reliance Industries¡¯ founder which surely continue to serve as an inspiration for many.

10 Inspiring Quotes By Dhirubhai Ambani

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1. If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

2. Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

3. If you¡¯re born poor it¡¯s not your fault but if you die poor it¡¯s your fault.

4. Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

5. You do not require an invitation to make profits.

6. Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

7. Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.

8. Only when you dream it you can do it.

9. Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

10. Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater.

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Looking Back At His Early Years

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Being the second son of a school teacher, Dhirubhai was born in 1932 in the village of Chorwad in Gujarat. Driven by hardship and want, he had to drop out of school early. In 1949, at the age of 17, he went to Aden (now Yemen) in search of opportunity and worked as a dispatch clerk for A. Besse & Co. A couple of years later, the company became a distributor for Shell products and Dhirubhai was promoted to manage the company¡¯s oil-filling station at the port of Aden.

It was here that he dreamed of setting up and owning a refinery, which he later realised with his petrochemicals venture. He returned to India in 1958 to launch his first business venture, a spice trading company named Reliance Commercial Corporation. In 1962, Dhirubhai identified an emerging opportunity in yarn trading and shifted to the new business. Three years later, he changed the name of his company to Reliance Textile Industries Limited.

Then in 1966, he purchased land in Naroda, Gujarat, to set up a textile mill. In 1975, a technical team from the World Bank recognised the Naroda mill as one of the best composite textile mills in India and certified it as ¡®excellent even by developed country standards¡¯. In 1977, the company went public through an IPO.

Dhirubhai Ambani is widely regarded as the father of India¡¯s capital markets. In 1977, when Reliance Textile Industries Limited first went public, the Indian stock market was a place patronised by a small club of elite investors which dabbled in a handful of stocks. Undaunted, Dhirubhai managed to convince a large number of first-time retail investors to participate in the unfolding Reliance story and put their hard-earned money in the Reliance Textile IPO, promising them, in exchange for their trust, substantial return on their investments. It was to be the start of one of the greatest stories and turned into a foundation towards the Rs 17 lakh crore market cap firm that Reliance Industries has become.

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