No substitute to hard work
Few would doubt Thomas Edison's talent as an inventor, yet he's known to have said, "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration". There is no reason to doubt Wipro scion Rishad Premji's assertion that hard work matters more than smartness or talent. The world of business is full of success stories that bolster his argument. A clerk in a trading firm in Aden went on to become Dhirubhai Ambani. From the ashes of World War II Japan, Akio Morita built Sony. And from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg, the IT industry is full of examples of those who had nothing more than a vision but went on to change the world. Sure, these people were talented. But it's one thing to come up with ideas, quite another to make them happen. Hard work is the critical input that separates the great from the ordinary. This couldn't be any truer in the world of sport. In cricket Sachin Tendulkar, hailed as arguably the greatest batsman of all times, is a study in hard work. Known for p...