Success is when your parents have a smile on their faces: Bajekal

It would take a person many years to achieve what the Reddy Group of Companies chairman Yanktesh Permal (YP) Reddy has achieved.

FMF managing director Ram Bajekal while speaking as chief guest at the Tanoa Group of Hotels Employee Awards Night held at the Tanoa International Hotel in Nadi on Thursday night, adding that this included himself.

“For me, success will come on judgement day,” he said.

Mr Bajekal said he would like to see his parents after his life on earth and if they had a smile on their faces, then he would know he would have succeeded in life. “While I am still here I hope that I can bring that smile to their faces.

Accomplishments

“A winner is someone who enjoys his or her accomplishments without guilt and enjoys without jealousy the accomplishments of others.

“Irrespective of whether you received a trophy or not, I can see that you are all winners because I can see the genuine support. Thank you for allowing me to be part of it. “I find myself being educated on a daily basis no matter where I go or no matter who I’m learning from.

“It’s just something that I treasure a lot because any single introduction is an opportunity to learn and get educated on something.

“I always surround myself with positive people because positive people will put peer pressure which is positive rather than negative people putting peer pressure on you which is negative.

“That is something that I have learnt from my grandmother.”

Mr Bajekal spent the evening during his speech imparting his journey through life

to where he was today.

Tanoa Group of Hotels Area manager Fiji Narend Kumar said the Employee Awards night was initially the brain child of their directors, YP Reddy and his family and it was decided to set aside one evening to give special acknowledgment to the high performing staff.

“Appreciation can be done in various ways however, the means to conveying this is crucial.

“It was our Directors idea to treat the high performers to an awards dinner night where the managers themselves would actually serve the staff.

“Your true trial period starts from today when you have basked in the acknowledgement today, tomorrow you will be working to prove yourself again.

“One successful and leading local businessman once said the goal post of success always moves further.

“If you have achieved 100 per cent today, tomorrow you have to achieve 110 - this is how you stay ‘relevant’ in the industry.”