Healthy attitude delivers endless wealth of opportunities

For 2002 Young Entrepreneur Award winner Raju Harilela, achieving the right balance in life is the key to both contentment and success.

'The older you get, the more you work towards things of value, not materially, but internal values,' he says.

That said, Mr Harilela has just bought Soho Delivery, a restaurant food delivery company.

Already the owner of Dial-a-Dinner, which includes 30 restaurants in its programme and delivers all over Hong Kong island and Kowloon, this latest purchase brings the number of food outlets under the umbrella of the Harilela Strategic Group to 93, with a target of achieving 100 restaurants early next year.

'This has all happened in a matter of three days' Mr Harilela enthuses. 'Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and the deal was done. Only in Hong Kong can business move with this sort of speed. There really is no other city in the world like this.

'I do think though that as this world moves at a faster speed, we forget what peace there is in silence, what strength we get from inside of ourselves and my interest in yoga centres me and has taught me to look within myself, and this relates to business as well.

'I believe every business we enter into must be a fair business, that every set-up we have, whether it's a relationship with other departments, suppliers or our employees, must be a fair relationship, and to me that is more of a criteria for success than profitability.