Auto-generated transcript:We come to the last of the principles. He says reputation outlasts riches.
John D Rockefeller, he gave away 500 million in charities.
He built the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University.
He treated his people well with respect.
And he always says money disappears, reputation echoes through generations.
And your legacy is not your bank account, it is the name, the reputation you build for yourself.
I'm reminded of the Gucci family slogan, which says quality is remembered long after the price is for water.
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
He also said that his secret empire or the empire secret was not oil, it was people.
He said, I'd rather earn 1% of 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own.
And he spent personal time recruiting top talent globally.
And very interesting what he said about who in his view was the best person to have.
He said, I will pay more for the ability to get along with people than I will pay for any other ability under the sun.
He said, I will pay more for the ability to get along with people than I will pay for any other ability under the sun.
So he valued people of talent, he valued people who were present, who got along with people, who were influential.
That's how you become influential, by being able to get along with people.
You do not become influential by being crass or by being qualified.
You do not become influential by being a good person.
You do not become influential by being quarrelsome or by any other way.
You build reputation and you build influence by being nice.
Now being nice does not mean you don't stand for your rights.
It doesn't mean that you let people walk all over you.
No, it just means that whatever you do, you do with style and you do with kindness and you do that with good manners.
Good manners are worth money.
Believe me, they're good.
They're worth money.
They're worth money.
They're worth money.
They're worth money.
I remember a little kid, maybe 10 years old or something, and I was in the riding club and Syed Ahmad Khan Sahib passed away.
He was my riding instructor.
And I would always, you know, in our Hyderabadi way, I would say, I would make salaam to my elders.
And I was not conscious of it, but I evidently had a big smile on my face.
And Syed Khan Sahib was a good rider.
Syed Khan Sahib was one of the first to say,
,
He told me that you are respecting people.
You are doing salaam to people and you are smiling will open doors for you that you cannot even imagine.
And he told me this when I was 10 years old.
Today I'm 17.
I believe that is so true.
I'm so grateful to Allah .
for such good teachers and for enabling me to do that.
Now, reputation outlasts riches.
John D. Rockefeller's competition and rivalry with Andrew Carnegie
was not only in oil, but also externally in philanthropy.
And both of them, they tried to outdo each other
in giving more and more to charity.
And obviously, that's a wonderful thing.
It's a thing which the whole of society benefits from.
And they did that, you know, amazingly well.
The thing he says is he treated people with respect.
That's the whole thing.
The whole point is, how do you build reputation?
Reputation is a very...
First of all, let me say this.
Reputation is your most valuable asset.
Nothing in the world comes even close
to your reputation.
In terms of its value, as far as you're concerned.
Reputation.
The thing I say to myself and I say to anyone who's listening,
what do you want to be remembered for?
What do you want to be remembered for?
Always ask yourself this question.
Any situation that you are in,
what do you want to be remembered for?
And then go and do that.
Do the thing that will make you memorable,
that will give good memories to people.
So if you are a parent, raise your children,
the way you want to be remembered by those children.
If you are a teacher, teach the way you want to be remembered as a teacher.
If you are a manager,