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The West is not producing enough engineers.
Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
I have never had the need or thrill for being wealthy.
People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.
Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn't affect them.
The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.
Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.
The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.
Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.
I don't think being a Muslim or being a non-Muslim has been an advantage or disadvantage.
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.
There are 600 districts in India. Every district in India has a teacher-training institute.
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.
We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.
Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.
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.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
You cannot have a society where you spend more than you earn. I mean, it's just fundamentally not viable in the long run.
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.
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.