Azim Premji Quotes

I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

Azim Premji

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• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Always
  • Succeed
  • Doctor

• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Change
  • Personality
  • Smile

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Sometimes
  • I Can
  • Journalist

• It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wits
  • Soaring
  • Puns

• Know the business, learn the business, own something.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Business
  • Know
  • Learn

• You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Will
  • Satisfied

• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Idea
  • Place
  • Class

• The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • True
  • Artist
  • Morality

• People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Music

• And now, at half-past ten o'clock, I hear the cockerels crow in Hubbard's barns, and morning is already anticipated. It is the feathered, wakeful thought in us that anticipates the following day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Past
  • Morning

• When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Competition

• Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Energy
  • Vision
  • Savage

• In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.

  

  Rhett McLaughlin
  • Learning
  • Advice
  • Really

• I was writing - at least beginning to write Boston Boy and there were a lot of holes in my so-called research. I didn't know the towns my mother and father came from in Russia. I didn't know the name of the clothing store I went to work for when I was 11 years old. I didn't know a lot of things. So I called for my FBI files, not expecting to have that stuff there, but I wanted to know what they had on me.But they did have the towns my mother and father lived in in Russia. They had the grocery store I worked in when I was 11 years old.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Mother
  • Research
  • Russia

• The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Night
  • Desire
  • Star

• Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Power
  • Success

• I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

  

  Azim Premji