Azim Premji Quotes
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I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
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There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.
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How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
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We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
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In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
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I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.
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This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.
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I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
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You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
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I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
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I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.
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People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.
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Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.
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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
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Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.
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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
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Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
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The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
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The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
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If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
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When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.