Ramesh   Babu is a Bangalore-based barber who gives customers a haircut for a  modest ₹100 but owns a Rolls Royce Ghost worth ₹3 crore, and 200 other   cars.

“Somehow,  things have clicked for me,” says Babu, whose clients include   politicians, police officers and film stars such as Salman Khan, Aamir  Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

With  a film on his life — expected to be released in three different  languages — in the pipeline, his Bollywood contacts may come in handy.

Babu  was nine when his father died in 1979, leaving the family with nothing.  To make ends meet, they rented out his father’s salon on Brigade Road   for a mere ₹5 per day. Forced to get a full time job, Babu dropped out  of school after Class X and started working as a barber.

The career choice paid off better than he could have imagined.

In   1991, he started his own salon, Inner Space, which gained popularity   among the city’s trendy bunch. But the turnaround happened in 1994, when  Babu purchased a humble Maruti Omni van and started renting it out.

More  than twenty years later, his car collection is anything but humble.  Apart from the  Rolls Royce, his fleet includes four Mercedes, an equal  number of BMWs and 50 Toyota Innovas — which he rents out. Renting the  Rolls Royce for a  day will set you back by ₹75,000.

Ramesh Babu with his ₹3.1 crore Rolls Royce Ghost and BMW.

Ramesh  Babu reiterated the simple message to entrepreneurs that he told  students to follow in his talk at TEDx Christ University:

Work hard. Be Humble. Anything else is just luck!

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