membership for Re. 1 or Rs. 5 and then he would purchase all
types of newspapers, bifurcate them according to the nature of
the work and in a year send 6 postcards (to his clients) containing
details of where to apply etc. And he drew many members.”
Shri Modi affirmed that nowork is big or small. He gave theMantra
of ‘Shrameva Jayate’ and pointed out that the biggest impediment
to our development journey is that we consider work to be big or
small. Individuals grow after doing small tasks. The Chief Minister
pointed that he has seen in many industrial families where
children have been brought up very well, they went to school in
best of cars but later on their fathers sent them to distant places
and made them learn the ropes like any ordinary person.
Speaking about another good quality of an entrepreneur, Shri
Modi recalled another anecdote and shared, “Once I was travelling
by train and a specially-abled child who was not even able to walk
was doing boot polish. I noticed that while he was polishing shoes
he would give a copy of the day’s newspaper to his client and on
that some kind words were written.”
Shri Modi warned against taking shortcuts and declared that very
often when life becomes excessively competitive and we live in
reference to others, we fail to look within ourselves. Similarly, he
talked about expanding one’s circle so that there is a free flow
of ideas.
He himself admitted that he gets ideas by talking to people. Shri
Modi stated, “Many people ask me- where do you keep getting
these new ideas from? (Well), when I talk to people I get sparks of
ideas after which I put my mind to it and then talk to officers.” The
Chief Minister gave the example of the Jyotigram Yojana and
recalled that when he mooted the idea the department said no
but gradually work began on the initiative, pilot projects were
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