Not everyone is born into riches and spoon-fed success. However, building wealth is possible regardless of your humble beginnings. Success comes easy when you go an extra mile as there is no potential substitute to the enormous toil required for making it big in life. It is well reflected from the success stories of several self-made entrepreneurs who thrived through the tough grind to establish a flourishing empire. Listed below are a few of them:
Dilip Shanghvi
Founder of the leading drug maker in India – Sun Pharmaceuticals, Dilip Shanghvi is one of the country’s richest self-made entrepreneurs. He was ranked at the 8th position in �India’s most powerful people of 2017’ list by India Today magazine.
Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak is yet another self-made entrepreneur who spurned his family’s successful business and founded his own finance firm. At present, his Kotak Mahindra Bank ranks among the country’s top four banks in the private sector.
Mahimananda Mishra
Mahimananda Mishra is the managing director and chief executive officer of Orissa Stevedores Limited (OSL Group). Owing to his hard work and dedication, Mishra established OSL Group as one of the top stevedoring companies in India.
Sunil Mittal
Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal is an Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist and the CEO and Chairman of the Bharti Group, one of the country’s leading agrochemical companies. He has a strong presence in diverse sectors like telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food.
Divyank Turakhia
An India-based computer-programmer, entrepreneur and investor, Divyank Turakhia is the founder of Media.net. Born to a middle-class Jain family, he followed his passion and interest in coding to make a career out of it and set up his own empire.
The stories of these self-made business tycoons, who worked day in day out, are a great source of inspiration for several aspiring entrepreneurs. They have set the perfect precedent as to what an ambitious man with determination and a zeal to excel can do in life.
