Gifted People!!

Sometimes i think about people, actually many times, who reached pinnacles of success starting from no where!!

Richard Branson, who i consider my idol is a great story. He never went to college. His mission is to give the man on the road a better deal. Be it through music, insurance, trains, apparel, airlines and many other businesses!!

Bill Gates dropped out to transform the world through Microsoft

Steve Jobs did similar things, not a great student either

Lakhshmi Mittal is a Bcom

Sunil Bharti Mittal used to be a cycle parts trader

Walt Disney was fired by a new paper editor for lack of ideas!!!

Just reading this case on Ritz Carlton, which mentions the story of Mr. Horst Schulze, who from a dishwasher rose his way up to become the president and COO of the most prestigious hotel chains in the world and just inspired me to write this post

Dhirubai Ambani whose legacy, Reliance Industries is now one of the drivers of Indian. Reliance Group revenue is equivalent to about 3.5% of India's GDP according to a source on the internet. Imagine, he used to be a petrol pump attendant and started with nothing.

Mother Teresa brought about changes by exemplary leadership. Mahatma Gandhi came from nowhere to become so instrumental in India's independence.

I could take many more names and most of them used to common men and women like you and me before they embarked on their lifelong missions.

These missions changed the world in one or the other. Or they set examples of extraordinary human success. They became inspirations from others and derived their inspirations from themslves.

We also want to change the world, don't we. We need a mission to be able to do that and the guts to walk the lonely road.