Wednesday, November 19, 2008

by Narendra Murkumbi (Shree Renuka Sugars)

Its tough to start off on your own right away. You learn many things the hard way. But at the same time, I don’t think the kind of jobs that come on the campus prepare you for entrepreneurship at all. You are very very segmented. You are in the higher paying and specialized professions like investment banking which are absolutely no backgrounds for starting off on your own.


You keep thinking about how to grow the business. Of course, you have a lot of ideas, and not everything succeeds. In fact, I think very few stories are written about failures…. Bust as long as the successes are big enough, I think things take care of themselves. 

In every business, the more you know about the grassroots, the better. 

I am an entrepreneur because I want to create something. Its not the money that motivates but the size of what you build, the scale. 

It is always difficult to switch off. Mentally you are always there and that’s hard for the family. Partly maybe personal style. Also because it’s your own business, you are that much more connected. 

The limits are in your own thinking. The impossible is what you believe cannot be done.

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