Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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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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The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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 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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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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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
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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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Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.