Azim Premji Quotes
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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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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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Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
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You can do clean business in India.
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I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
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You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
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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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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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The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.
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You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to prioritise them better; we need to grow them better, mind them better. We need to give more value to them, and we need to execute a lot of areas in the organisation where we are not executing.
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I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
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Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
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The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
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If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
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The West is not producing enough engineers.
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The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
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Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
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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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Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.
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Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
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We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
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Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.
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The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.