The Raju Rambatla Story
The Raju Rambatla Story
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00:00 >> Well, I'm a drifter.
00:02 I was born in a very impoverished family.
00:05 All my life searched for the true story of my own life,
00:09 but I couldn't get it.
00:11 >> A person full of experience.
00:15 >> He's like a sea, deep diving, deep diving into it.
00:18 >> He is an outstanding person.
00:20 >> How he's living his life,
00:21 that is living like a legend.
00:22 >> So he's someone really who's
00:24 a university and institute in himself.
00:28 >> My name is Raju Rambatla Ramaswamy,
00:34 and this is my BNI story.
00:37 One of the core values of BNI is giver's gain.
00:53 Imagine, and the bus is gone,
00:56 your suitcase is on the road,
00:58 you have no clue where you are.
01:00 Some driver said this is Baghdad,
01:02 that's the beginning of my life in Iraq.
01:06 I was in charge of logistics,
01:08 freight forwarding, shipping.
01:10 That's my core business.
01:11 After about 14 months or 15 months,
01:15 I get a call from some Indian gentleman from Bombay.
01:19 He said, "My name is Meswani."
01:21 I said, "I'm sorry, I don't know you."
01:24 He said, "No, you don't know me,
01:26 but we know you because you helped us
01:29 regroup with my family.
01:31 You put us on a flight.
01:33 You did so many help to us.
01:36 So we want to say thanks to you."
01:39 He started transferring
01:40 all his garment export business to me.
01:43 I'm in the freight business.
01:45 I don't know how he knew.
01:46 I said, "Thank you, God.
01:48 I don't have to really worry about money.
01:50 I made sufficient profit to return the loans."
01:55 I sat down.
01:56 I cried.
01:59 I realized what I did in Jordan
02:02 to those Indians
02:04 is the core value of BNI,
02:07 which is the giver's gain.
02:09 In BNI Emperor,
02:12 I had contributed
02:14 more than a million dirhams worth of business
02:16 to my young, small to medium entrepreneurs
02:20 after seven months in the core group.
02:23 He will do everything and anything
02:26 to support you, to look out for you.
02:28 It's on us how much we want to receive.
02:30 You know, we say BNI is an institution.
02:32 To me, Raju Bhai is an institution.
02:35 You have to just give and close the door
02:38 and forget what you did.
02:41 Over the years, I slowly realized
02:44 that it's not about me and it's about we.
02:46 It's about the community.
02:47 If the community grows and thrives and flourishes,
02:51 so do you.
02:51 And you know his commitment.
02:53 Look at his commitment.
02:54 He's present at 100% of the meetings.
02:56 He takes this very seriously.
02:57 He also talks to your language.
02:59 We talk in Arabic sometimes
03:01 and learning from the GCC what he has gone through.
03:04 I found BNI Emperor members,
03:08 almost all of them
03:10 are diamond quality, uncut, raw stones
03:15 just being harvested.
03:18 They are yet to be cut,
03:20 yet to be polished,
03:21 yet to be shined.
03:23 It will eventually gain their values.
03:26 He will always share the love with everyone.
03:29 So Raju Bhai is a very courageous individual
03:32 who doesn't worry about how much time he has got at hand,
03:35 but his thing is,
03:36 what can I do with that time?
03:38 So he's a living hope to this day.
03:41 All the times passed and you're still there
03:43 because time will not stop for anybody.
03:45 He is the engine of the chapter.
03:47 The courage to look at death in its face
03:49 and smile at it and say,
03:51 "Whatever little time I've got on this planet,
03:53 let me make the best of it."
03:54 That what you have learned in life
03:58 is fistful of soil that you can hold in your hand.
04:02 And what you have to continuously learn
04:05 is the soil on which you will be traveling
04:08 all through your life.
04:09 Learning is a continuous process.
04:11 So we resonate with BNI.
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04:16 (upbeat music)
04:19 (music)
04:21 [Music]