| Late Dhirubhai Ambani built Reliance from scratch
to be in the reckoning for a place in the Global Fortune 500
list. This achievement is even more significant due to the
fact, that the entire growth was achieved in an organic manner
and in a span of just 25 years.
Dhirubhai was not just firmly rooted in traditional Indian
values, but was also a quintessentially modern man - the
man of the new millennium. This was clearly reflected in
his passion for mega-sized projects, the most advanced technology
and the highest level of productivity.
The corporate philosophy he followed was short simple and
succinct - "Think big. Think differently. Think fast.
Think ahead. Aim for the best". He inspired the Reliance
team to do better than the best - not only in India but
also in the world.
Dhirubhai Ambani, Founder Chairman of the Reliance Group,
had an acute sense that education alone empowers people.
He was a great communicator. He communicated to inspire,
to guide, to educate and to motivate.
He employed telephone as a powerful tool to achieve these
goals. He used telephone to defeat distance, to compress
time and to remain abreast of events. He was acutely aware
of the power of information and communications. He would
often say: "make the tools of infocomm available to
people at an affordable cost, they will overcome the handicaps
of illiteracy and lack of mobility".
He wanted a telephone call to be cheaper than a post card.
This, he believed, would transform every home, empower every
Indian, remove the roadblocks to opportunity and demolish
the barriers that divide our society.
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