Friends
Recently I met an old man aged about 70 years. He is very successful businessman raised from a very poor family. This man told me two things:
1. If you are in profession, as I am, then the fees you would charge to your client depends on the depth of your pocket and not on the depth of the client's pocket.
Professionally the charges for a professional assignment differs from professional to professional. Same work is billed differently and hence there is wide difference in the charges. Till now I was in the impression that the fee depends on the depth of the pocket of the client but I was wrong.
So to elaborate further, the old man said that the level of fees depends on the level of your loosing the fee. If you charge higher fee and feel afraid about loosing it, you cant get higher fee, but if you are ready to loose the fee you quoted, then you would get it any how. This makes the level of your fee structure and ultimately the profile of your clients too.
2. This old man further told me that we Indians are blessed with two great Epics in the form of Ramayana and Geeta. These Epics are on the basis of life of Bhagwan Ram and Bhagwan Krishna. In his view, both the gods teach us that in Business one should behave like Lord Krishna (bit diplomatic, shrewed and know all the tactics to get the things done) and in family life like Lord Ram (very loyal, calm and flexible). If reversed it may lead to disaster.
What you say friends?
regds
cpjain