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Abhijeet Mitra, CEO, Ebony Gautier

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First job: Junior Sales Executive at Indian Communications Network Limited

Enduring memory from early career days: Selling 90-plus English typewrites worth Rs 50,000 each in a challenging and Hindi-dominated state. I achieved the highest zonal sales. This means that irrespective of the market conditions, if you have the right mind set and the will to do it – you can!

If not a retailer, what would you be: I am a retailer by choice; else I would have been in the food & beverages business

Favorite business icon: Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks

Favorite business philosophy: Success lies in the detail

The company you admire the most: Starbucks

Your most significant career achievement so far: My considerable achievements are turning around Ebony Gautier, building India’s first chain of art and crafts called Hobby Ideas and relaunching ‘Ceat Shoppe’ which was a 15-year-old brand at a time when organised retail was not prevalent in India

Key learning in your career: Sell what you would buy for yourself and treat your consumer the way you would like to be treated

If you were granted one wish for your industry, what would it be: Industry status

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Zodiac sign: Aquarius

What do you like to do the most in your spare time: I am a fitness enthusiast. I enjoy fusion cooking and travelling. I am also a connoisseur of and single malt whisky

Favourite book: Thoughts become things

Favorite websites: Wikipedia

Favourite movie: The Godfather

Favourite song: Que Sera Sera

Favourite movie icons: Marlon Brando

Favourite shopping destination: USA

Favourite holiday destination: New Zealand

Favourite religious / political icon from history: Kabir

Favourite food: Chinese

Favourite season: Winters

What do you like most in people: Honesty

What do you dislike most in people: Lack of commitment

Top three things you want to do at some point in life: Social work for the girl child; open an old-age home; and start a restaurant

Your vision for the nation: A robust economy driven by 100 percent literacy rate

Your idea of a life well lived: Happy and healthy life and doing good to others

The thing you value most in life: A clean conscience

What makes you smile: My daughter

What makes you feel great about yourself: The ability to build successful and consistent businesses

If you had to teach something, what would you teach: There is no shortcut to success

 

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