A small trading office in Mumbai

Dhirubhai Ambani was born in 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat. As a young man he worked in Aden, in Yemen, where he learned how trade and markets worked.

In 1958 he returned to India and started a small trading business in Mumbai, dealing in spices and yarn from a modest office. He built trust with suppliers and buyers, one deal at a time.

That trading business grew, over decades, into Reliance.

What you can use from it

• Learning how a market works is worth more than a big start.
• Relationships with suppliers and buyers are business assets.
• Big goals are reached through many small, reliable deals.