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 managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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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 can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
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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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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 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 success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
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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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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 U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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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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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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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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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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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 old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
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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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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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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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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.
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You can do clean business in India.