Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.
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It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.
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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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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
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People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.
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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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You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
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We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
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We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
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You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
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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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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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Certain product lines are more suited to be manufactured in proximity with the customer, while others are more suitable to be manufactured in India.
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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
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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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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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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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You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
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Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.