Billionaire Gas-station attendant or Steel $19 Billion ?
June 18, 2006
Ok so the title is a little diseaving… but both statements make perfect sense…
Lets talk about the second one first… Steel $19 Bn…. sounds tempting ha ?? Well think again.. Only so much in life is that easy… That was the amount made last year by a certain Steel Mogul.. This is a little story about a man with a long term vision and an emense amount of patience.. I’m sure many of you have heard of Lakshmi Mittal… owner and CEO of the world’s largest steel company Mittal Steel; ranking him on the worlds top Billionaires list.. now what intrigues me about this innovative man is his ability to foresee fortune and the extraordinary $19 Billion Year … Mittal’s actual net worth is over $23.5 Bn..
He spent $60 million on his daughters wedding.. Giving her day a little more than any regular Fairytale wedding.

Why should you always be nice to the person that fills up ur tank at the gas station ?
Firstly, it’s good manners.
Secondly, no matter how limited their jobs may seem, they also have ambition and dreams.. And you gotta respect a person that can pump ur gas and is silently planning for a huge enterprise while waiting for the tank to fill up.. an enterprise like Reliance Industries Limited.
Reliance Industries Limited is India‘s largest private sector company with a turnover of 744 billion rupees (US$16.7 billion) for the fiscal year ending in March 2004. It was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in the 1970′s.
Allah ehaneehom and I hope we see more innovative and rising companies in this region too :)