Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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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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Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
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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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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 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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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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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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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 can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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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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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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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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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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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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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Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
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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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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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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.