Winners

A blog on 'Losers' inspired me to write this blog about 'Winners'. I was able to relate to each and every quality of a loser mentioned in the blog. It got me thinking about what separates a winner from a loser and then while I was traveling few weekends back, I read a book called 'Stay Hungry Stay Foolish' and that inspired me to think what really differentiates the winners from losers. This book is about the success stories of people from IIMs who made it big after rejecting the fat pay cheques they got during their placements. Infact many of them left high profile jobs within days of joining to work on their dreams.

This is the first difference between a Loser and a Winner. They do not hesitate to start things from scratch. Even when they are in a comfortable position in life, they do not mind giving it up to get the creative satisfaction. They do not wait for things to happen. They do the things that losers wait for to happen. They don’t wait for change they make the change.

Winners follow the principle of 'find the purpose and means will follow' while we losers find the means and resources first.

Winners are always immune to the 'What will People say" syndrome. According to me 70% of India acts on this principle but the winners don't. They do not care if they leave a high designation job in a big bank to start their career in a garage based office. They do not care about this 'what will people say' clan.

While a loser is busy finding excuses that s/he has to stick to the job for her/his responsibilities, the winner is already out there with an idea, ready to realize her/his dreams without thinking about the home/car loan EMIs, rents, family, and other responsibilities. Practically, today if I am given a chance even I will not give up my job as I too have the excuse of home loan, rent and other responsibilities but then I am a self confessed loser.

Dig out any success story and the most common thing will be there was no pressure from the family or loved ones. Nobody's family ever told them that you have to get into the family business, you have to live in this city only, you have to have kids now and work later, and you have to earn at least xyz rupees per month. Blah blah blah. They all had their families supporting them. A loser always puts the blame on someone else saying'i had no one to support me', but the fact is that a winner convinces people and takes them with her/him while a loser just puts the blame on someone else. There are people who lived on their wife’s or husband’s salaries for years to make it big on their own. Winners do not have any ego or prejudice.

Their foundation is strong. Winners get into some of the best institution. (This doesn’t mean that there are no winners from average schools. Infact there have been leaders who never even went to a university. But I am talking about the majority here. Remember, I am inspired by the IIM success stories and my personal experience of observing the winners around me) this plays a very big role in anybody's life.
More than the education what the big institutions teach you is to deal with the world. They make you react very practically to the situation around you. You have friends who are ready to take risks. Your company is such that your thinking is developed. Because they study at good institutes they have batch mates and friends who are at good designations in the corporate world. Needless to say, this means a huge influential network. Winners capitalize on networks and losers use these networks to showoff to their friends/family that I know 'xyz'.

Hard work, Hard work and more Hard work is the key. Nobody became a millionaire overnight. Some of them struggled for more than 5 years to make it big and the difference here was they never gave up. They kept on putting in the hard work and waited for the right moment.

Along with hard work what separates the winners is that they do not work hard only for money. They follow their heart. Money is not the only motto. They work to make a change. Even if they do not know what to do they know what not to do.


Losers give up at the slightest pretext and winners never give up even in the toughest situation. They have the courage and patience to turn their dreams to realities. They do mistakes too. But they do not repeat the mistakes like losers.

Hard work, courage, perseverance and a right set of people around is what makes a winner what he/she is. Walking that extra mile, working that extra hour, thinking that ‘I’ can make a change and still having your foot firmly on the ground is what a winner is. We all do one thing or two of the ones listed above but doing everything together and not giving up is Winning.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.