Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
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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 old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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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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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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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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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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.
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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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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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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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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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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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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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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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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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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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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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Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.