Gautam Adani speaks at Mumbai college which rejected his application

Gautam Adani had in the 1970s applied to join a Mumbai college, but the college rejected his application. He did not pursue education but turned to business and went on to build a $220-bn empire. Four-and-a-half decades later, he got called to the same college to deliver a lecture to students on Teachers Day.
Adani had moved to Mumbai at the age of 16 and started working as a diamond sorter.Around the same time in 1977 or 1978, he applied for admission to the city's Jai Hind College. "But they rejected him," said Vikram Nankani, President of the Jai Hind College Alumni Association, as he introduced India's second richest person before his lecture on Thursday.
As Jai Hind did not accept him, he continued working for almost two years. Adani later returned to Gujarat to run a packaging unit managed by a brother.
Delivering the lecture, Adani, 62, said he was just 16 when he chose to break "his first boundary." "It had to do with giving up my education and choosing to move to an unknown future in Mumbai. People still ask me, 'Why did you move to Mumbai? Why did you not complete your education?' The answer lies in the heart of every young dreamer who sees boundaries not as barriers but as challenges that test his courage."
"I was driven by a need to see if I had the courage to make a life for myself in the most happening city of our country," he said. Mumbai was his training ground for business as he learned to sort and trade in diamonds.
"The field of trading makes a good teacher. I learnt very early that an entrepreneur can never be frozen by over-evaluating the choices in front of him," he said. "It is Mumbai that taught me 'To think big, you must first dare to dream beyond your boundaries'."