Azim Premji Quotes
I.B.M. was not really bringing their best technologies to India. They were dumping old machines in the country that had been thrown away in the rest of the world 10 years before.
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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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In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
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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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I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.
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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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This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.
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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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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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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
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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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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
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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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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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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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I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.
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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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I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.
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When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
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I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.