Words matter. These are the best Azim Premji Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
You can do clean business in India.
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.
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.
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.
We’ve always seen ourselves as Indian. We’ve never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
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.
Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
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.
My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn’t talked about it in depth.
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
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.
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.
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.
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.
I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don’t make the bold steps slower.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it’s just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
Technical people tend to be more ‘techie,’ and management people are more ‘managerial.’
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
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.
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
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.
You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
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.
I don’t think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
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.
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
We entered the global market only in the end-’80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
Frankly, I don’t know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
