Azim Premji Quotes

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Azim Premji

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 24, 1945

There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

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I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.

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Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

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People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

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We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.

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This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

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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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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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People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

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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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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.

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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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I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

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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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Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

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The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.

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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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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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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.

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I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.

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