Yeh kaha aa Gaye ? This is the question one of my client asked to himself. What went wrong with him suddenly that the achievements of 30 years were questioned. He stared his career in a very humble way. A poor boy who was basically earning his daily bread by stitching clothes. Yes you are right , he was tailor with even no ownership of a sewing machine. Day & Night he was on that rented sewing machine . Gradually he owned one machine. He was very happy but had a dream of becoming successful businessman as he could not succeed in education . He wanted to remove his poor family tag from all the family members. So to achieve this dream he started hiring people and doing job work for others. One machine multiplied to 100 and then 500. Now he had full fledged industrial unit with more than 700 ppl under his empire. He did not stop there , and moved, moved and moved. Never he thought of family and the result was that soon he built up the capacity of manufacturing 5000 shirts per day . The dream was much bigger and it led to 20000 shirts per day. Now money was not the issue, success became the dream. He was now surrounded by the people who gained his confidence after he became successful. In life we come across two kind of people I.e. those who help during journey of success but we forget and those who join after success but we never forget. So these second kind of people stared giving him advise in technical language with jargons. He was not looking back and had overconfidence that all his business decisions of last 40 years were correct and can never go wrong in future too. New breed of people started questioning is garment business . Why not chemical, pharma or petrochemicals . The 24*7 money churning machine led to the belief that new sectors are full of money and this old one is too small. This led to jumping into petrochemical and pharma sector. Now this decision was going to cost him dearly. He lost every thing, even the garment division started bleeding and soon both the divisions became sick.
Every body now turned tables and questioned his capability. He was confused and thinking how to handle this situation. Profit gone and money borrowed from bank and others could not be served. He was soon branded failure . The same bankers who used to take his appointment were now asking him questions quite insulting . He was sitting in a Corner answering every body . More than that may be asking himself what he has done ?. Where he has landed now ? This is the life of a business man convincing every body what went wrong but no one was believing . I cud see the pain in his eyes. I could read unanswered questions in his eyes . May be God would reply some day or may be never. Now the new set of people were guarding him.
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