Madhusudan_Das

His Life and Achievements 173
important meetings. He always remembered that he was
the proud scion of the sacred 'Sati'.
II -- He leamt from his mother one moral, 'Oh ! Companion,
take care to guard your own prestige'. He never failed to
practise it till his death under any condition.
III- 'Money is like a handful of dust which a man might
through away from his hands and still be a man'. He got
one lakh of Rupees in Victoria Rupees Coins from Raja
of Keonjhar as his fees, but never looked upon the amount
with the acquisitiveness of a fortune-maker. He would
remember his hard days of youth on the paths of struggle
at Calcutta. Thrift was not known to him. Meanness was
his enemy.
IV- He believed in God and never suspected human beings.
That is why he lost 3 lakhs of Rupees and changed 8
managers in the Utkal Tennary. So also he lost in the
other concerns.
V- He adored his mother, grandmother, great grandmother,
his village where he was born and the motherland Orissa.
His primary aim was to make the world know Orissa.
VI- He was obstinate and short-tempered as well as intelligent
and large hearted. Magnanimity in distress and
munificance in affluence were in his blood.
VII- He very often said, '1 am a restless talker not pinned down
to concentrated writing. And I have lived too long, but
too fruitless'."
The picture of an entrepreneur given by the classical economist
Jean-Baptist Say is like this :
He is the economic agent who unites all means of production —
the labour of one. the capital or the land of others — and who
finds in the value of the products which result form their
employment the reconstitution of the entire capital that he
utilizes and the value of wages, the interest and the rent which he
pays as well as the profit belonging to himself.
And his special qualities are -
....judgement, perseverance and a knowledge of the world as well
as of business. He is called upon to estimate, with tolerable
accuracy the importance of the specific product, the probable