Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
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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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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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The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
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I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
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The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.
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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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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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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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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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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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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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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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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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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There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality.
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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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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.