Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani(Dhirubhai
Ambani ) was born on 28 December 1932, at Chorwad,
Junagadh (now the state of Gujarat, India) to Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani and
Jamnaben in a Modh family of very moderate means. He was the second son of a
school teacher.
The Founder of Reliance Industries in
Mumbai with his cousin.
Dhirubhai took Reliance Industries public
in 1977 and by 2002 the combined fortune of the family was $6 billion.
Ever
since childhood, Dhirubhai was more keen on work than studies and repeatedly
bunked classes and roamed in streets, watching people work and making money.
He’d once said his
mother to stop lamenting about the hardships and that he would make 'heaps
of money one day.' His entrepreneurial career began in his early school
years by selling 'bhajias' to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends. On
completion of his school studies, his brother Ramnikbhai sent him to Aden,
Yemen, which was the second busiest oil banking and trading port of the time.
Dhirubhai Ambani
joined the largest transcontinental trading firm named A.Besse & Co as a
gas-station attendant, as well as a dispatch clerk. A.Besse & Co would deal
in every possible branch of trading from cargo booking, shipping, handling,
forwarding, to wholesale merchandising for a great number of American,
European, African and Asian companies. His hard work promoted him to maintain
and manage company`s oil filling station at the port of Aden.
Dhirubhai once
said, 'More than anything else I learnt that nothing big can ever be achieved
without money, influence and power and I also learnt that money, influence and
power alone cannot achieve anything in life, big or small, without a certain
soft, delicate, sensitive, understanding human touch in all one’s deeds and
words.' In 1958, he came back to India with Rs 50,000 and started the business
of polyester yarn import-export at Masjid Bunder of South Mumbai and later
founded the Reliance Commercial Corporation with an investment of 15,000. Back
in those days Polyester was in great demand across Asian markets and soon his
profit skyrocketed.
Dhirubhai continued
to live in one bedroom flat with his wife and children for almost a decade
until 1968 when he moved to Altamount Road in South Mumbai. In 1966, Dhirubhai
started his own textiles manufacturing unit at at Naroda, in Ahmedabad.
He launched his
first brand ‘Vimal’ sometime in 1969-70; and in 1975, his
manufacturing was visited by a team of technical experts from the World Bank
who certified it as 'excellent even by developed country standards.'
The biggest
breakthrough in his life came in the year 1977, when he managed to attract over
58,000 investors in the very first IPO of Reliance Commercial Corporation;
and he never looked back ever since. A humble beginning helped him to stand his
empire worth $64 billion.
Dhirubhai built up
a textile and Petrochemicals Empire with his dedication, ability to recognize
new business opportunities, dare to take risk, never-give-up attitude and
intelligence to handle people.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Quotes:
Our
dreams have to be bigger, our ambitions higher, our commitment deeper, and our
efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.
Think big, think
fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.
Pursue your goals even in the face of
difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.
Give the youth a
proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one
of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.
Awards and recognition
· He
has been honored for several times for his significant contributions.
· January 2016-
Awarded Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second-highest civilian award
posthumously.
·
October
2011-Awarded posthumously the ABLF Global Asian Award at the Asian
Business Leadership Forum Awards.
·
November
2000–Conferred Man of the Century award by Chemtech Foundation and
Chemical Engineering World in recognition of his outstanding contribution to
the growth and development of the chemical industry in India.
·
2000,
1998 and 1996– Featured among Power 50-the most powerful people in Asia
by Asiaweek magazine.
·
June
1998 – "Dean's Medal" by The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
for setting an outstanding example of leadership. Dhirubhai Ambani has the rare
distinction of being the first Indian to get Wharton School Dean's Medal.
·
August
2001 – Economic Times
Awards for Corporate Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.
·
Dhirubhai
Ambani was named the "Man of 20th Century" by the Federation
of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
· A poll conducted by
The Times of India in 2000 voted him "Greatest Creator of
Wealth in the Centuries".
Biography by NCERT OFFICIAL
On Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Lecture - Reliance Group
By Dr A P J
Abdul Kalam
By Shri Narendra
Modi
Reference: Wikipedia.
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