Azim Premji Quotes
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There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
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People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
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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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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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Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.
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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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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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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 important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
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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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The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
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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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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
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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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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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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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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.