Azim Premji Quotes
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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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.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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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.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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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.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.
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That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
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Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.
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If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.
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My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
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I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
