If, and I say this to aspiring entrepreneurs, if we cut out some items on the list, for instance, salary, if we can detach ourselves from the traditional concept of a regular salary and instead draw money keeping in mind the progress of our enterprise, it's the first step to entrepreneurship. If we can accept this, we've crossed a major divide — we are on our way to acquiring the mindset of an entrepreneur. The distinction I'm drawing is not between intellect and mediocrity but between a visionary-planner and an implementor.

I believe anyone who is not pressurised by salary and has an ambition and that ambition is centred around those tangibles that are not on that list, has the right mindset to be an entrepreneur. Unfortunately we are conditioned to acquire those tangibles that are on the list and then think of entrepreneurship. We say to ourselves, "Now I am 45. I have a house and car and so I can afford to think of doing something on my own.' I believe changing a mindset should not be dependent on personal progress of this sort. You might not have anything to start with, but still have the drive to start out on your own. Because you're driven to do it — you have that inner compulsion.

Experiment then, take risks, not with the sole aim of material gains, but with the expectation that your endeavours will bring greater gains in the future and not one of the tangibles on the list. It is understandable that people need to draw these lists, that they eventually get controlled by it. But I believe it makes for mediocrity.