Azim Premji Quotes

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Azim Premji

Profession : Businessman

Birth : July 24, 1945

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

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You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.

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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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People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

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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 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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I can't have my employees sitting in traffic when they should be in the office. Spending two-and-half hours in the car is a huge waste of productive time.

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Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

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The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

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The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.

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What we are doing is we are putting in significant training into the people we have currently to upgrade their skill resources, upgrade the presentation resources, and upgrade what we expect from them in terms of not business as usual.

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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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Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

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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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Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.

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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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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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When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

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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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