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The best professional advice I ever got was when I was 15
years old. I had just completed my schooling from Aligarh
when my father took me to visit his friend, Khwaja Ahmed Farooqi,
in Delhi. He took us out for lunch and asked me, “What
do you want to do in future?” Now at 15, you think you
can do anything and everything, so I gave him five or six
alternatives. He then suggested that I should become a grass
cutter. I was naturally somewhat startled by this piece of
advice but he went on to say: “But only on condition
that you become the best grass cutter in the world. He then
said something which I will always remember: “Koi kaam
mamuli nahin hota, kaam karnewallah mamuli hota hai (no work
or job is small; it is only the worker who may be small).”
Success is ultimately not in the job itself; it is in how
well you do your job.
- As told to KAVEREE BAMZAI |
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