My best advice (with CEOs)

In this picture: Ajay Kaul, CEO, Jubilant Foodworks Ltd at Business Today MindRush 2013. Several business honchos at the event shared the best advice they received from peers, seniors and family about life, happiness and success. Kaul shared how he got outstanding advice, both at personal and professional level, from his father.

Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation (India) Private Limited, recalled that his best advice came from none other than Ratan Tata when he was going to the US to seek a partner for Tata Group company Nelco. "I asked him what my brief was. He told me to build a relationship through which both sides make money," said Pramanik.

V. Vaidyanathan, Chairman and Managing Director of Capital First Ltd recalled the time when he left ICICI Bank in 2010 to take to take an entrepreneurial role. At that time, he had sought Narayana Murthy's advice. "He told me to watch the company I keep. 'The company you keep will define you'." Later, K.V. Kamath also gave him the same advice.