If you can’t wait for the traffic light to turn green, are you fit to make more important calls in your career? Here’s what Narayana Murthy had to say… 🚦
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00:00One of the things that I really feel very uncomfortable coming to Delhi is this is one city where indiscipline is the highest.
00:10Let me give you an example.
00:38I came yesterday from the airport at a red signal.
00:45There were so many cars, so many motorbikes, scooters, you know, violating the red light without a single care.
00:55I think if we can't even wait a minute or two just to move forward, do you think those people will wait if there is money?
01:07Of course they won't wait. So therefore, I would say that all of us have done it.
01:15So we start teaching our children to demonstrate these things in small areas, in areas where there is small return.
01:28The moment you get used to following the right path where there is small return, then your mind becomes stronger and stronger and stronger.
01:40Then you will gradually improve towards resisting temptation where there are big returns.
01:50Even the most corrupt fellow, I have seen from my own experience, wants his children to have good values.
02:00I don't know of any single father, any single father in India or abroad who says,
02:08Nobody has said that. So therefore, when you demonstrate values, those people who are habitually used to taking bribes and all of that,
02:25internally they start developing respectfully. So therefore, I would say that values are extremely important whether you are small or big.
02:40I want to tell you a story. One day, you know, in a house, I believe there is a husband and wife and a small child.
02:49The wife was very unhappy with the father-in-law, that is the father of the man.
02:57And one day, the man got very upset. He said, Tomorrow I am going to bury my father. She said, Okay.
03:06So morning they got up early. He told the father, We are going to the forest. And the father came.
03:15And they had a small child, three or four years old. So the child also said, I will also come with you.
03:22And they went into the middle of the forest. And the man told the father and his child, Please wait here. I am going to dig some hole.
03:35So he started digging. Then the child came to him and asked him, Papa, why are you digging this hole?
03:44So as I told you, every father wants to be honest with one's children. So he said, No, no, I want to bury my father.
03:55So then after some time, he found that the child was also starting to dig a hole. So he said, What are you doing? What is this?
04:06He said, No, you are burying your father. So I am going to bury my father. So the point I am making is this,
04:15that if you want to develop values, you cannot say that I will reach some one billion dollars or ten billion dollars
04:28and then I will start practicing values. That's why every mother, every father tells their children right from age one,
04:41saying, Beta, be honest, work well, study well, don't waste your time, etc.