Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.
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You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
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People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.
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Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
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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 have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
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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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Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.
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With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
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What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.
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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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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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Wipro is one of the fastest growing companies regionally and globally, and I am personally very excited with our journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
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Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.
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The public/private partnerships are taking various forms in India. It is individuals who are socially oriented are setting up schools. They're setting up colleges. They're setting up universities. They're setting up primary-education schools in the villages, particularly the villages their original families came from.
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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.
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If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.