Azim Premji Quotes
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My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.
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Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
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We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.
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The importance of this success of Wipro has become manifold more, because it's the success of Wipro that enables the possibility of making a difference to some of the most disadvantaged people in the world.
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Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.
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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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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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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We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
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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 can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.
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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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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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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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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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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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A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
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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.
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You can do clean business in India.
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The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
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Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.