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Dhirubhai Ambani: "Think Big, Think Fast, Think Ahead, Ideas Are No Ones Monopoly"

Dhirubhai Ambani was an Indian business magnate and founder of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company. He was born in 1932 in Gujarat, India and started his career selling goods to pilgrims in Mount Girnar. After moving to Yemen for work as a young man, he returned to India in 1958 and founded a textile trading company with 50,000 rupees, which grew into Reliance Industries. With the assistance of his two sons Mukesh and Anil, Ambani built Reliance into India's largest private sector company with diversified interests in petrochemicals, telecommunications, energy and other industries. He received several honors for his achievements

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Dhirubhai Ambani: "Think Big, Think Fast, Think Ahead, Ideas Are No Ones Monopoly"

Dhirubhai Ambani was an Indian business magnate and founder of Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company. He was born in 1932 in Gujarat, India and started his career selling goods to pilgrims in Mount Girnar. After moving to Yemen for work as a young man, he returned to India in 1958 and founded a textile trading company with 50,000 rupees, which grew into Reliance Industries. With the assistance of his two sons Mukesh and Anil, Ambani built Reliance into India's largest private sector company with diversified interests in petrochemicals, telecommunications, energy and other industries. He received several honors for his achievements

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Dhirubhai Ambani

“THINK BIG, THINK FAST, THINK


AHEAD,IDEAS ARE NO ONES MONOPOLY”
introduction

 Dhirubhai H. Ambani
Founder Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, India
December 28, 1932 - July 6, 2002

Major Group Companies: Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company.

 Birthplace: Chorwad, village in Saurashtra (Gujarat), India


 Father's Name: Hirachand Govardhandas Ambani
 Mother's Name: Jamunaben Hirachand Ambani
 Family: Wife: Kokilaben.
 Four children : two sons Mukesh and Anil, and two daughters, Dipti Salgaocar who lives
in Goa and Nina Kothari who resides in Chennai.
Childhood Days 
 Dhirubhai was born at Chorwad, in the district of Junagarh in the western
Indian state of Gujarat.
 At School time
After he completed his fifth standard in the village school,
Dhirubhai was sent to the district town of Junagarh for further studies.
There he showed great verbal acumen, was highly acclaimed in school
sports and for his team spirit and organizing skills, though not so much for
his performance in routine class tests.

He was however, a man of simple habits and lived a measured life.


Career:

At the age of 17 went to Aden (now part of Yemen) and worked for A.
Besse & Co. Ltd., the sole selling distributor of Shell products.

In the year 1958 returned to Mumbai and started his first company,
Reliance Commercial Corporation, a commodity trading and export house.

In the year 1966, as a first step in Reliance's highly successful strategy of


backward integration, he started the textile mill in Naroda, Ahmedabad. 

In the year 1975, a technical team from the World Bank certified that the
Reliance textile plant was "excellent by developed country standards." 

In the year 1977, the company went public. 


Achievements:

 Awarded the Companion Membership of the Textile Institute, UK, an award


which is limited to 50 living members who have "substantially advanced
the general interests of the industries based on fibres", 1994. 
 Chosen as 'Star of Asia' by Business Week, USA, June 1998.
 The only Indian industrialist in 'Business Hall of Fame'
in Asiaweek, October 1998.
 Declared 'Most Admired Indian Business Leader' by The Times of
India, Indiatimes.com poll, July 999
 Chosen by the Indian Merchants' Chamber as "An Outstanding Visionary of
the 20th Century" in recognition of his unique achievements and
contribution in the development of industry and capital markets in India,
December 1999. 
Business Development
Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by
selling "bhajias" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the
weekends.

After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai


moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station
attendant, and as a clerk in an oil company. He returned to
India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile trading
company.
Assisted by his two sons, Mukesh and Anil, Dhiru Bhai Ambani built
India's largest private sector company, Reliance India Limited, from a
scratch. Over time his business has diversified into a core specialisation
in petrochemicals with additional interests in telecommunications,
information technology, energy, power, retail, textiles, infrastructure
services, capital markets, and logistics.
Thank You

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