‘Things don't come your way. You must make things come to you'

The spirit of entrepreneurship is undying and it gets a meaning, when you put some experience into it, said Mr K. Sambasivan, Founder and Managing Director, Essecom Private Ltd.

Delivering the Business Line Club lecture on “Spirit of entrepreneurship”, sponsored by Syndicate Bank for the students of Bishop Cotton Academy of Professional Management, he told them to become catalysts of change by staring their own enterprises. “Things don't come your way. You must make things come to you and make them fall in place,” he said.

Narrating instances from his professional life (starting from sales and service engineer at an electronic measuring instruments company after completing the course at Indian Institute of Technology to a project manager at a company into manufacturing ATMs), Mr Sambasivan said there was no substitute for learning and simple instances had tremendous values.

“As a person, you instinctively take to opportunities and people with entrepreneurial spirit have belief in themselves to take the prospect of failure head-on and have the determination to top. They take to challenges and have the tenacity to succeed against all odds,” he said.

He noted that creative vision, drive, reflection, action, passion, teamwork, achievement, commitment and, significantly, personal values were some of the major elements that would help an entrepreneur to succeed.

He also remarked that they needed a positive and winning attitude, and the skills (aptitude) to go along with it to succeed as an entrepreneur. Mr Sambasivan told the students not to seek excuses for failures. “The ability to anticipate and to develop ‘out of the box' thinking are the core of the entrepreneurship. You also need to be persuasive and have patience and commitment to succeed as an entrepreneur,” he said.

Mr Sambasivan added, “Entrepreneurship is the spirit of not succumbing to any failure and being able to stand on your feet again to fight another battle, probably another losing one. The path may be tough and the rewards are far from sight, but the spirit should never die.”

Ms Leela Manjunath, Branch Manager, Syndicate Bank (Yelahanka Newtown branch) spoke about “SyndYuva,” products launched by Syndicate Bank for the students. She highlighted the benefits of education loan offered to students. Dr Ranji Jacob, Principal, Bishop Cotton Academy of Professional Management, welcomed the gathering and introduced the guests.

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