Success is not solely determined by academic knowledge but by a combination of persistent focus, continuous learning from mentors regardless of their age, and effective execution of intentions.
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A very good morning to each and every
one of you. It's great to be here with
the young people and uh it's a fantastic
morning to see the entire hall full too.
So pleasure to be here with you. What
makes the difference between
between
a person who is learned
and a person who is successful?
What is the difference? Large number of
people are very learned but they're not
very successful.
So we find that the students who may be
100% marks still is not successful in
his life.
What is that gap which really takes
place and what is the experience that we
have in terms of industry
in terms of business in terms of finance
in terms of job profile in terms of the
legal fraternity what makes that cutting
edge different from the purposes of
because we all read our religious
backgrounds but it is very few who
really come to make that difference and
that is why
I choose what we call mentors on the
first level. What are we trying to say
today is that in life you must learn
your subject and must do well for
graduation in your degree. But you have
to learn from people as to how to use
your life of knowledge but add the skill
set that you need to do in order to take
it to the next level. That is number
one. Number two, what's the difference
between an architect, architect and architect?
architect?
So many qualified architects in this
city and the country that makes a
difference. You can be chamatkari once,
you can be a chamatkari one twice, you
can be a chamatkari three times, but you
can't be a chamatkari for 35 years. You
have to have a persistent, consistent, regular,
regular,
perseverant attitude if you want to be
successful all your life. Focus, focus,
focus,
focus. If you learn to focus your
Arjun looking at the fish eye for the
purposes of borrowing the arrow.
You can never be not successful.
That is the secret of success. When I
was young and I started my real estate
business, there was a builder by the
name of Maker.
I went to Nariban Point and I saw 40
buildings. In this 40 buildings, I
looked at which is the best of those 40
buildings and I tried to find out what
is the selling price of each. You know
what I found that all the buildings
there were at that time sold at the rate
of about 200 rupees per square foot. Big
amount of those days. 200 rupees a
square foot selling price of the
buildings. But maker
was selling at 240 rupees a square foot.
40 rupees difference in 200.
Big amount of money were there. But it
made a big lobby. They had big spaces.
They were welld designigned. They were
well constructed and had a better
quality of construction. I treated him
as my mentor.
Even he did not know that I was his
mentor. I studied the buildings that he
made. I studied the attitude that he had
and I learned from him that you can
definitely make better buildings than
everybody else. These are not taught in
your textbooks. No textbook tells you
that you need to learn how to become
better than the other people. No
textbook tells you. But leadership tells
you, mentorship tells you. So you go to
a mentor who is standing above all the
other people. And it doesn't matter if
the mentor is younger to you or an older
to you. Let me tell you a short story.
And I've said this before. So some of
you may have heard this before. There
was a person my father Dr. LHandadi ENT
surgeon, Padma Bushan, Danvantri Award
winner, leading cancer surgeon. He
discovered the cancer of the thyroid
region as a head and neck surgeon. That
cancer operation is still used by
various doctors all over the world. At
80 early morning at 6:00, he tells me Niranjan,
Niranjan,
I'm going to Germany to learn a new operation.
operation.
Dad, are you crazy? you can tell your
father that and get away with it because
he's your father. So I said, "How can
you do that? You are a book writer. You
are a teacher. You have taught everybody
all over the world. How can you go to
Germany at 80 to learn a new operation?"
He said, "No, no, no, no, no. I will.
I'm going to go to Dr. Pester and
there's an operation of the year and I'm
going to learn from him."
I said, "Dr. Cluster, didn't he come 12,
14 years ago to learn the operation of
the thyroid area from you and he's at
least 10 to 15 years younger to you? He
said, "Yes, you remember we had dinner
at Willington Club together and he was
the person who came.
It doesn't matter if the person is
younger to you.
It doesn't matter if the person is older
to you.
What matters? What matters is will you
pick up something from that person
and pick up one thing in their work that
they do which will become useful to you
in your life
and that is the second secret of
success. The first was perseverant
focus. The second is being a learner all
your life. No matter what age you are,
you have to be a learner. Learner,
learner, learner. If you do these things,
things,
I promise you that irrespective of your intelligence
intelligence
or your average intelligence, if you
think you're average, you shall be
successful. But those who do not focus,
those who do not study, those who are
not persistent, those who are not
learners all their life will not be as
successful as you. No matter what the
position of those people are there in
the life and that is important
talking about the subject of what I'm
supposed to speak,
the question comes up of the development
of the city of Mumbai. city with which I
was born. City which is a great city
because it's the financial capital of
the country. It is one of the richest
cities in India. But what's the but
50% of the population of Mumbai lives in Jopati.
Jopati.
We had a law called the rent act and
because of that 18,000 apartment
buildings over here had been reppalitated
reppalitated
because the rents were too low. The
landlords were not willing to repair it
and on top of it the issue was that the
tenencies were getting transferred but
there was a buggery system in the old
days and of course some of that has been
regularized today. So the government
created a new law in terms of
redevelopment of this and gave the
benefit of additional FSI for the
purposes of development. The second part
of it is were buildings which were
constructed in 50s60s and 70s.
Unfortunately in those days cement was a
big issue and because there was a cement
problem or shortages of cement the
quality of the buildings were
compromised. Hence buildings which were
constructed in this period are today not
of good quality and they are dalipitated
even though they haven't crossed 100
years of think which is this what the
structure should have had. So the
government realized that people who had
those houses couldn't get any
opportunity to do and hence brought in
the policy wherein again you had an
incentive FSI and this became an
opportunity for the purposes of
redevelopment to do this. The third
thing which the city has done is
creating infrastructure.
The infrastructure of the city has seen
a paradigm change.
65 years we had three railway lines. The
western railway, the central railway and
the harbor line. 190 kilometers of the
western railway. The government realized
that they had not done enough
infrastructure. We are now going to add
in the next 2 years complete 330
kilometers of metro lines. We have now
completed the coastal road which is an
access to Wii our university area. We
have also done the atal bridge which has
opened up enough lands across the harbor
and it is the longest uh bridge across
the sea which cost us 22,000 crores of
rupees for the purposes of construction
and we have a new airport which has just
opened and flights have just started
over there. So what is the thing the
government is trying to do? It's trying
to do three things. One, create a better infrastructure
infrastructure
in a short period of time by investing a
large amount of money in the city of
Mumbai. Number two, create three
policies of redevelopment.
one relating to the cest building, the
second relating to other buildings which
are noncest buildings and the third to
redevelop slums in the city of Mumbai.
As I said 50% of our richest city in
India still lives in Joparatis
and it is our aspiration of our chief
minister Mr. to Dendra Fodnavis that in
the next 5 to seven years we should
eliminate all the slums of Mumbai by the
policy of redevelopment that is being
taking place in the slum area. So we
have the ambition and aspiration of the
government. We have the policy in place.
We have the professionals who are
sitting here on the dis who have taken
up the leading role in it. Then we have
the developers who have come into the
picture and some of the societies also
have what we call a selfred
redevelopment policy under which an
additional incentive has been given by
the government of Maharashtra. So we
have lot of new ideas and scheme
will it work?
Big question. Why is this question mark
in my mind? Because in the past we have
not done it.
We planned to do the cross harbor bridge
in 1971 at a cost of 100 crores and now
we had to do it at the cost of 22,000 crores.
crores.
We had the policy of
various projects that had come into
place. We didn't do any further
additional metros for the last 65 years
and now we're going to do it all in five
years. We didn't think of the new
airport for I was on the committee of
airports in 1980 and now we are in 20125
that the airport second airport has
come. So we all believed at that time
That's the difference that you have to
learn today. The difference is you can
have an intent
but if you don't action your intent you
cannot be successful. The example of
Mumbai is that
we had a policy which Balas Takare gave.
I was a part of that committee which
signed on the policy and the intent was
that in 10 years or 15 years we would
solve the problem of slums in Mumbai and
that was 22 years ago and we are now of
course addressing doing so what's the
difference between yesterday and today
intent and execution
this is important for all students to learn
learn
pursue it,
focus on it, commit yourself to it and
become the most successful people in
India. We are all in that situation
where we all are ordinary as compared to
somebody else who is better than us. But
if you pursue,
if you focus,
if you aspire and you actually learn to
walk the talk and like all the
professionals sitting here, learn to see
that you all are learners every day
irrespective of your age and time. So my
heartiest congratulations
on you as students of the HSNC
university. You have a great
opportunity, great focus, great
learning. Keep at it. Be happy. Have a
lot of fun. I'll do two. And all of them
do too. We don't only not have fun. We
also have great fun. But when it comes
to work, when it comes to our
Don't worry about anybody. Just focus
and you will be the greatest. I promise
you that you will go out of this
institution with great aspiration. Thank
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