Sunil Bharati Mittal on Entrepreneurship

When Sunil Bharti Mittal started in business more than 30 years ago in Ludhiana in Northern India, he borrowed $1,500 to make bicycle crankshafts. Today, he heads the $5 billion Bharti Group, whose flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is India's largest mobile phone operator. Forbes magazine, which estimates Mittal's net worth at some $11 billion, ranks him among Asia's self-made millionaires. Mittal spoke with India Knowledge@Wharton at the U.S.-India Business Council's 33rd annual meeting in Washington, D.C., about the leadership and entrepreneurial lessons he has learned during his career. Among them: When faced with a choice between perfection and speed, choose speed; perfection will follow.

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Comment by naman kumar on December 22, 2011 at 6:19pm: thanx

Comment by ANTHONY AYONOTE on April 20, 2011 at 1:15pm: Excellent journey so far,God's Grace has been with you.... Kindly carry us who are on the road now....(ANTHONY AYONOTE MD/CEO OF GOD'S OWN BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL LTD, NIGERIA, AFRICA)

Comment by naraynan sethurao on January 17, 2010 at 10:37pm: When faced with speed and perfection...choosing speed puts you to operate with a BACK FOOT..and takes your valuable time and speed for sufficiently long time....how to aviod this..? is the question among people who choose to go by the speed...

Comment by Vimal Vijayan on November 15, 2009 at 8:11pm: That was a really inspiring video!
It clearly shows that Entrepreneurs should be ready to face any big challenges thrown onto them to succeed in life!

Comment by Raj on October 28, 2009 at 12:15am: This is really inspiring.. thanks Sanjay Dalal ..

-Rajesh Dagar

Comment by David J Dunworth on October 27, 2009 at 12:21pm: One of the great things about entrepreneurism is the fact that it is a global undertaking. This world economy has always been fueled by the individual efforts of entrepreneurial comanies, and that will never change. One thing is evident; big business, big banking and big government cannot cure the ills of the economy. Entrepreneurs will always make up the majority of the GNP or every country in earth, and that is exciting. We must take full control of our individual destiny by cooperatively working together toward economic growth. COOPERATIVE CAPITALISTS is the answer.

For more information about Cooperative Capitalism, please see my web site at www.ceospace.net or contact me at ddunworth@ceospace.net