Dhirubhai Ambani
He was born into a Gujarati family. His father was actually the Hirachand Gordhandhas Ambani was a village school teacher with little income. Dhirubhai was precocious and highly intelligent. He was also highly impatient of the oppressive grinding mill of the school classroom. He chose work which was useful for him and make use of his Physical Ability rather than other students who just focused on the Craming. Whenhis mother once asked Dhirubhai and Ramnikbhai to help his father by earning money, he angrily replied, "Why do you keep screaming for money? I will make heaps of money one day". So on weekends, he started setting up onion/potato fries stall at village fairs and made extra money which he gave to his mother.
And then he moved on and just look at when he died he had Net worth around $6 billion
Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 50's time and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business and he chosed spices. After making modest profits he choose to go into textiles and opened his mill near Ahmedabad. Dhirubhai founded Reliance Industries in 1958 and today this company have over 85,000 employees and provides almost 4.5% of the Central Government's total tax revenue.
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