Azim Premji Quotes

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Azim Premji

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 24, 1945

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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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 three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

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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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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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I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

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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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I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.

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I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

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There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.

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You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

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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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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

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To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.

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I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.

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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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Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

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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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Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.

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Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

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