Vijay Eswaran wins Special Award for Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership

QI Group Executive Chairman, Vijay Eswaran was bestowed the ‘Special Award for Education Entrepreneurship and Leadership’ at the 18th Malaysian Education Summit, organised by the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI).

Malaysia’s Minister of Education ll, Dato Seri Idris Jusoh presented the award held at the SWAN Convention Centre here.

The award recognises Eswaran for his vision, innovation, leadership and success in navigating Quest International University Perak (QIUP) to rapid growth during the last three years. Notably, the university, a joint venture between the QI Group and the Perak state government, is expected to surpass the 1,000 mark student population and extend the programmes offered to 24 by end of this year.

“While I am thrilled to be an award recipient for education entrepreneurship and leadership, this achievement could not have been possible without QIUP’s dedicated teaching staff, our trusted council members, and our students who challenge us daily to improve the way we do things at the university.

“I am also very honoured to receive this award alongside the rest of the accomplished entrepreneurs such as Dato’ Peter Ng of UCSI Unversity and Tan Sri Ir Othman Merican of Sri Kuala Lumpur School, who are all working diligently for the transformation of the education sector as well as to build innovative private education in Malaysia and globally,” said Eswaran.

Eswaran, who is also the University Council Chairman for QIUP, wins this award for showing fine entrepreneurial skills and exceptional management expertise as well as for his role in the development of professional education, education reforms and innovation.

Under the leadership of Eswaran, QIUP is today one of the fastest growing universities in the country, currently offering 20 programmes including medicine and post graduate.

“From its humble beginning in 2011, the QIUP saga is a story of the hunger for excellence and the thirst for achievements. The far-sightedness, courage and determination on the part of the University’s management team in identifying an industry niche and capitalising on core competencies are the mainstay in our quest to turn QIUP into an education hub in the country.

Speaking as a Panelist at the Summit on the topic of “Transforming Malaysian Education in the 21st Century, Eswaran said English language proficiency is fundamental to the transformation of the Malaysian education sector.

“English proficiency in the country has reached a critical level that it can undermine the well-being and international standings of this country in the absence of genuine efforts to curb its decline. It is difficult to conduct economic and commercial activities without a strong command of English.

“The poor, especially those in the rural areas, will suffer from the lack of proficiency in English. Malaysians need to be able to find employment anywhere in the world and proficiency in English can provide access to the international job market, which undoubtedly can help the poor get a decent, good paying job,” explained Eswaran.

The Malaysian Education Summit brought together key stakeholders in Malaysian Education to brainstorm on how best to further enhance the quality of education as well as to discuss critical issues on the implementation of the new education blueprint. The Summit also discussed key trends and identified new opportunities in the education sector.



Receiving the Special Award for Education Entrepreneurship
and Leadership from Minister of Education, Dato Seri Idris Jusoh.

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Vijay Eswaran conferred SSAP

                                          At the investiture ceremony in Abu Bakar
                                          Palace in Pekan, Vijay Eswaran is conferred
                                          the SSAP by Sultan Ahmad Shah



On Feb 2, 2013, Vijay Eswaran was the recipient of yet another honour. In recognition of his contribution to the development of the State of Pahang, he was conferred the royal honour SSAP which carries the title “Dato’ Sri” by Hi Royal Highness Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang on the occasion of His Royal Highness’ 82nd Birthday.

The investiture ceremony took place at the Abu Bakar Palace, Pekan in the state of Pahang in Malaysia.

Source: http://www.vijayeswaran.com/2013/02/vijay-eswaran-conferred-ssap/

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An important tip for your next presentation.

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Special needs kids flex entrepreneurial muscles

Children with special needs from the Rashid Centre for the Disabled will soon have an opportunity of a unique partnership with e-commerce platform, the QNET, ready to sell their products globally and earn a respectful recognition for them.In this regard, a partnership between the Rashid Centre and the QNET was signed to utilise the potential of special needs children in designing and manufacturing products like abayas and traditional fragrances. Khaled Diab, Regional General Manager at Mena, QNET told The Gulf Today an agreement with the centre has been completed and will support these children.

The Rashid Centre has a huge training workshop on its premises. Many students with special needs are producing a number of products and learning skills from their teachers. The product range is photo frames, tableware, decoration items, wooden fancy boxes, abayas, ethnic jewellery products and a number of bakery items.“During a recent visit to the Centre, we found that children with special needs at the centre manufacture abayas with unique designs which could easily be sold online. Through this partnership, we will ask these children to create more designs every 3-4 months, and these new designs will be showcased online as well as the perfumes being manufacturing by the centre’s students,” he added.QNET will buy products like abayas, perfumes and Oud, a traditional fragrance, designed and manufactured by the Rashid Centre students, and then sell them on the platform of QNET’s direct selling.

He also informed them that a couple of varieties of perfumes made by the Rashid Centre’s students are in the testing phase by a group of users, and soon the line of perfumes will also be on sale at QNET’s platform.
“The Rashid Centre through its comprehensive approach has honed the skills of these special needs children. Many young students are capable of designing abayas in many different ways and could be sold easily worldwide through the internet. These children have the power of designing, and we have the power of marketing and selling, and the joint venture will capture the attention of the entire world,” he said. The long-term partnership will also help the centre raise funds for itself as well as recognise its talented students who possess a variety of capabilities. A portion of the proceeds from the QNET sale will be handed over to the Centre, he said. Khaled Diab added that last year on its 15th anniversary, QNET has launched 15 campaigns in 15 countries. “In the UAE, we provided 5 water purifiers to a number of labour camps and portable water to over 15,000 workers,” he added. Besides these partnerships with local organisations, QNET has also been extending its support to orphans and monthly food packages to deserving families in Ramadan.

Source: http://gulftoday.ae/portal/8d9c3f29-78f2-42ba-b340-61f5571c2725.aspx

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The Quality of Excellence

Excellence is striving for quality or merit in all that we do with awareness and attention. It must be tempered by balance, because when we seek excellence in one area, we risk neglecting our other values and priorities. Excellence does not mean being perfect; it means using our abilities and opportunities to their fullest potential. Excellence is not a skill but a habit with the right attitude.It is a spontaneous performance that one prepares for well before hand. It is an art wrought by sustained training that has evolved into habit. One achieves excellence by paying attention to every detail with a focused awareness. Exellence is simply doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Excellence is a brilliant outstanding quality that is superb in its application and sterling in its finish. Excellence does not fade, it just becomes greater by day. In true excellence the path is continuously upward. It means surpassing all others in merit and brilliance.

Excellence in principle is competing against yourself. It is about being better than you were the day before. Excellence is not what you do, but how you do it. It is the best that is in a person. Excellence is not a skill but an attitude. It is clearly habit which builds into a character of excelling. It becomes spontaneous as we progress eventually becoming effective while appearing effortless. It is the demonstration of championship. Excellence is an art perfected by long training, practice, patience, persistence and peseverence . Excellence always excels more in action than in speech. Excellence is unleashing the almost unlimited ability within oneself driven by will power. It raises the quality of every action. Life is like a play, it is not the length but the excellence(as in the quality) of acting that matters. Excellence is always in the details, Excellence is doing even ordinary things in an extraordinary way. It requires the same arduous, patient and painful process of preparation to achieve excellence in all fields. The first sign of excellence is almost always a higher, refined moral sense.

Source: http://www.vijayeswaran.com/2010/07/the-quality-of-excellence/

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The essence of network marketing

If you have been in this business for awhile, let me ask you something. What is the essence of network marketing? Is it trust? Integrity? Freedom?

All of these count, but ultimately the essence of network marketing is service. In fact, if you understand what it means to be in service, you will understand network marketing. And if you understand network marketing, you will know how to achieve your goals in this business.

Essentially, service means serving without quantifying, serving in a selfless manner — service above the self! Service is about giving, not taking, because that is where true strength lies.



Let’s be honest here. How many of you are too preoccupied with when your next cheque will come? Are you sometimes so engrossed in calculating profits that you forget what it means to be a leader?

If you keep focusing on the small things, your mindset will remain small. Remember, wealth is not your bank statement; wealth is a state of mind. If the most successful men were suddenly robbed of their riches, do you think they would stay broke? Of course not, because they know exactly how to return to that state of success.

For a network leader to reach that state of success, you must first pass the ultimate test of strength: learning to be in service. Why? Leadership is also about service: you have to carry your team members and serve them willingly, patiently, persistently. When you serve them, they will serve you. That is why true leaders are called servant leaders, and why I am first and foremost a network marketer, not Managing Partner or Executive Chairman.



A fine example of leadership through selfless service is our In Service Brotherhood, comprising our own brothers and sisters in the network who readily volunteer their services for free at each V event.

Being part of the InService tests their level of commitment to humble servitude, an essential lesson to be learned before they can become great leaders and guide their teams to success. It is more than a tradition, it is the way of life of a true servant leader!

Tell me, my fellow networkers: Do you truly understand the essence of network marketing? Are you doing what you must to be a good leader? How can you be of better service to others? Do share your stories with me.

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Believe, and the world is yours

Belief is the single most powerful force.

When you believe, you can achieve anything. Great inventors believed in what they were doing. Although failure after failure came, they kept going, driven by the belief that what they were doing had to work. Success does not stem from the belief that something can work; it’s the belief that somethingmust work!

Let me tell you a great story I heard long ago that still resonates with me today:

The power of belief

Once there lived a monk on an island in the middle of the Ganges River, which floods every seven years. Frequent travellers across the river would stop to pay their respects in return for the monk’s blessings. Among them was a milkman who would always leave a pot of milk behind. One day, the milkman grew ill. On his death bed, he told his daughter to continue this tradition as their way of
serving the Lord. And so she did.

When the flood began, the boats stopped, but still the milk arrived. On one of her visits, the milkmaid sought the monk’s advice for a dilemma: the flood made it impossible to deliver the milk, yet she wanted to keep her promise to her father. The monk told her to believe in the Lord and everything would be fine.

Over time, the flood worsened and the monk had to leave, so he asked to leave with the milkmaid. She agreed, and to his surprise, she began to walk on the water. “How do you do that?” he cried out. She replied, “You taught me to just believe and walk.”

Shocked, the monk lifted his dhoti and tried the same but sank in to the water. “Why am I sinking?” he demanded. The milkmaid answered, “You said His name, but you also lifted yourdhoti so you wouldn’t get wet.”

Beyond belief

When the milkmaid believed completely, she did something incredible. People do incredible things every day. I am where I am today because of belief. Many a time, I was won over by the belief of the person before me. How is this person so interested, so convincing, so powerful? Their passion comes from belief.

When you climb a mountain, the mountain is just incidental. What you have conquered is your greatest obstacle: you with your fears and weaknesses. Will the journey be long? Probably. Will the challenges be great? Absolutely. But is it worth it? Without a doubt.There is no shortcut to financial freedom. To be truly successful, we have to work very hard. Anything you have achieved in life that is worthwhile, you earned by working incredibly hard. What you struggle and sacrifice to get, you fight to keep.

When you work hard at something every day, you get better at it. The better you become, the easier it gets. But it stops being work altogether when you learn to love what you do. When you learn to make your team the best they can be, and take pride in that, you grow as well.

And that is the true power of belief.

Source: http://www.vijayeswaran.com/2011/06/believe-and-the-world-is-yours/

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Love and Belief

My thoughts on the power of belief.

V-Indonesia 2012 was a great success. For those of you who missed it, next year there will be three V-Cons: in Egypt, India and Malaysia. If someone you know cannot make it to V-Con, bring V-Con to them.

One group that I missed at the event this year are the hearing and speech impaired, who taught me a very important lesson: Noise is not the greatest way to express love and admiration.

There is nothing we cannot do when we come together. The power of belief is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Everything we talked about, we achieved, and that is because we believed in our dreams. We believed we would have 10,000 people at V-Con; we believed we would have a tower and now we have the QI Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and recently, we reached 100,000 Likes on Facebook.But the single most powerful force in the world is love. Helen Keller, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa… they all achieved because they chose to love. Love what you’re doing in life, love where you’re going, love your team. When you become a part of QNET, you join us for life, and that is the way to success. We stand here year after year because we are family and we love like a family.

There is a war we are fighting now and that is the Economic War, a war to become truly independent. Here at QNET, we give you the power of hope. With every V-Con you attend, you take back what you learn to change your lives. You attend not just to survive but to revive.Make this pledge to yourself:


Renewing our belief with a pledge for a another year of success.

A question you must ask yourself is, “Why am I here?”
The answer to that must be “I am here because I am still not where I am supposed to be.”

If you want to achieve success, you must live life every day like it’s your last. Every day, choose one target that must be reached. There are two simple steps if you want to become a successful person: (1) Believe and (2) Work like there’s no tomorrow. There is only one language I speak, and that is the language of love. There is only one way, and that way is up.

Were you at V-Con this year? Share your experience and what you learned in the comments section below. You can also follow me on Twitter or Facebook.

Source: http://www.vijayeswaran.com/2012/09/love-and-belief/ 

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Stepping Stones to Success

Embrace your challenges, for they can become your stepping stones to success. Once you learn to embrace small challenges, the big ones will be no different and you’ll be ready for them. Nobody wants problems in their lives, but they happen every day in network marketing.

With every challenge there is an opportunity. It is not during the good times that we grow and become stronger. It is only when we are pushed to the brink of existence that we truly learn and become better people. Even in nature, it is during a famine or a drought, that the strongest animals and trees survive. We are here today as man because we survived every challenge that was put forward to us. QNET is here as a company today because we survived challenges.

To be afraid of challenges is to be afraid of life. Every challenge has to be welcomed and embraced with passion. This sounds easier than it actually is; the moment a challenge hits you and you are deep in pain, you won’t want to listen to this advice and you’ll want the pain to stop at once, but that is the time to be strong because in that challenge are so many blessings.

When you join the business, the first thing you must recognize is that you have to be in service to your network. You have to raise your team – guide, build, and uplift them – and be their mentor, shepherd, and light in the dark. You have to be all the things you have avoided in life; you have to stretch every muscle in your being. For muscles to be strengthened, they first have to be torn, like when one lifts weights in the gym. When a string breaks, you knot it and it becomes many times stronger. Likewise when we work together, our challenges become lighter and lesser. Our strength lies in when we work together, united, in dealing with our challenges.

Source: http://www.vijayeswaran.com/2012/10/stepping-stones-to-success/

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