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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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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 test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.
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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
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It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.
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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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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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You can do clean business in India.
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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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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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.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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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 West is not producing enough engineers.
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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 Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
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