No Regrets: Journey Through Law and Life
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No Regrets: Journey Through Law and Life
Sale price
$35.99
Regular price $43.99
For thirty-five years, Suresh Patel walked into courtrooms, boardrooms, and construction sites not as a builder or a CEO, but as the lawyer who made it all legally possible. From a cotton-farming town in North Karnataka to the highest-stakes corporate deals of Bangalore's boom years, his career spanned six industries, four decades, and decisions that shaped companies worth billions.
No Regrets is not a conventional memoir of triumph. It is the story of a man who chose balance over glory who left a promising law firm rather than lose his marriage to eighty-hour weeks, who walked away from a steel plant project worth thousands of crores when the numbers stopped making sense, and who launched his own practice at forty-five only to watch every client disappear five years later.
It is also the story of what sustains a life in law: the mentors who shaped him, the wife who held the family together during months of Mumbai commutes, the Yamaha RX100 that gave him his first taste of freedom, and the books from children comics to Encyclopedia Britannica to John Grisham that taught him how to think before any law school could.
Written with the candor of someone who has nothing left to prove, No Regrets examines:
• What it really means to build a career across textiles, IT, media, retail, real estate, and steel
• How to survive, and learn from, professional failure without losing your identity
• Why the choice between ambition and family is rarely as simple as it looks
• What a ₹35 crore habit really costs, and what it takes to stop
• How to approach sixty not as an ending, but as the launch of a second innings
For lawyers, professionals, and anyone navigating a long career in a rapidly changing country, this is a rare memoir from the inside honest, warm, and entirely without regret.
No Regrets is not a conventional memoir of triumph. It is the story of a man who chose balance over glory who left a promising law firm rather than lose his marriage to eighty-hour weeks, who walked away from a steel plant project worth thousands of crores when the numbers stopped making sense, and who launched his own practice at forty-five only to watch every client disappear five years later.
It is also the story of what sustains a life in law: the mentors who shaped him, the wife who held the family together during months of Mumbai commutes, the Yamaha RX100 that gave him his first taste of freedom, and the books from children comics to Encyclopedia Britannica to John Grisham that taught him how to think before any law school could.
Written with the candor of someone who has nothing left to prove, No Regrets examines:
• What it really means to build a career across textiles, IT, media, retail, real estate, and steel
• How to survive, and learn from, professional failure without losing your identity
• Why the choice between ambition and family is rarely as simple as it looks
• What a ₹35 crore habit really costs, and what it takes to stop
• How to approach sixty not as an ending, but as the launch of a second innings
For lawyers, professionals, and anyone navigating a long career in a rapidly changing country, this is a rare memoir from the inside honest, warm, and entirely without regret.