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I love about doing my own thing is I can come to work the way I am. No need to pretend, no need to shave if I don’t want to!”
those who want to work for somebody and those who want to do their own work.
If you’ve got talent then of course work hard, hang in there, make it happen.
Our mission in life is not to reach sales targets. The purpose of life is to be happy.
Laser Soft is in the business of software but it is not what you’d expect of a ‘software company’.
Suresh Kamath believes that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
Swami Vivekananda.
fascinated.
patriotism,
Narayan Murthy
Suresh went cold calling and approached the biggest bank in the city - the State Bank of India.
“The IT industry has assumed that it has to grow at a breakneck speed, but I beg to differ. If the company grows at break neck speed and the employees are stressed, and they break down, they burn out, I don’t think it is worth it.”
formidable
“In the software industry after 8 or 9 years you stop programming and become a manager. That is wrong.
We still write programmes, we still work in technologies. The experience of the seniors is used to develop better products.”
Laser Soft’s USP was that it understood banking from head to toe.
“We had worked four to five years understanding, very patiently, how a bank works.
fleecing
esoteric
“The general perception is that we are doing charity. I say it is a business model. Needy people are getting jobs, we are making profits every year,
we are paying dividends where is the question of charity?”
I asked, “Can you climb this staircase daily?” He said, “Yes.”
Suresh hired him on the spot. A man so keen to work would definitely be successful - and he was.
The company runs a whole training programme called ‘Light’, only for the differently abled.
“IT companies project an image of being rocket science or doing something glamorous.
It is not. To make products, we don’t need to be in a fancy campus.”
Suresh’s argument is simple: Engineering graduates are not readymade programmers - they have to be trained for 6 months to a year. So why can’t you also train non-engineers?
At Laser Soft, even if a driver wishes to become a programmer, he is encouraged.
“So, many people have come as drivers and now they are programmers.
“Education qualification is not the criteria, it is what the person can do,” he adds.
And thus it was that Laser Soft moved to Valasaravakkam. Low profile, but the employees simply loved it.
Freedom means innovation. People innovate and do fantastic work.”
three short years later, ILFS wanted to exit by selling the company.
“We bought back the shares from ILFS at the same rate offered by I-flex.
fascinating
Marketing has become more important than ever.
So, I requested him, ‘Sir you come and become our chairman, not just for namesake, you please run the entire strategy, the finance, investment, marketing - everything.’”
believe only ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
If people think they are already extraordinary, they will do ordinary things.
The attitude, the focus on work comes by thinking ...
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Spread happiness among people. Ultimately, that’s the most valuable thing. Whatever amount of money you have, if you do not have peace, it is of no use.
experience is over-rated - there is no better time to start, than now.
“We used to buy the lamps for T 1 each and sell for T 1.50. The money we made was blown up on ice cream or buying cricket balls.”
When Raghu was in class 6, he failed in history by two marks. His housemistress called him aside and said, “I can give you grace marks but tumhe iski aadat lag jaayegi. Why don’t you start studying harder?”
“People appear for JEE, then they settle for CET and finally they take admission in NIIT…
What keeps people from dreaming big is fear of failure.
Raghu did join IIT Guwahati, but after a couple of classes, realised design was not his cup of tea.
Who Moved My Cheese.
Back on the IIT G campus, there was general confusion. Some thought he had failed, while others thought he was from the preparatory course.
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