Quotes by Azim Premji - Page 2

I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Concern
Affairs
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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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Health
Conscious
Educated
Family Planning
Health Care
Little Bit
Planning
Child
Education Family Health
Bit
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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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Hiring
Staff
Interview
Segments
Trained
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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.
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Depth
Died
Firm
Business Dad Me
Join
Talked
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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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Philanthropy
Powerful
Responsibility
Entire
Rests
We Cannot
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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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Proximity
Suitable
Customer
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Business Leaders
Social Service
Scale
Important Role
Leaders
Service
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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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Significant
Irrevocably
Shares
Transferred
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Journey
Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Companies
Fastest
Globally
Personally
Saudi
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Traffic
Waste
Employees
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You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.
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Britain
Engineering
Grind
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Cycles
Important
Outsourcing
Powerful
Productivity
Talent
Becomes
Global
Important Thing
Improve
Leverage
Powerful Tool
Reduce
Tool
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We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Work Together Believe
Two People
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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.
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Access
Chinese
Indian
Protectionism
Subtle
Vietnamese
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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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Commitment
Courses
Remarkable
School Teachers
Teachers
Sundays
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The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Principal
Chain
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Attention
Drivers
Enough
Hard
Hard Work
Honesty
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Pay
Perseverance
Three
Success Work Hard Work
Basic
Often
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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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New Generation
Wealth
Characteristic
Creates
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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.
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Machines
Thrown
Bringing
Best World Rest
Dumping
Technologies
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I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged.
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Millions
Privileged
Wealth
Believe World Better
Better World
Believe Better World
Contribute
Far Less
World Believe Better
Strongly
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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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English Speaking
Long Hours
Similar
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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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Ambition
Resentment
Wealth
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Combination
Integrated
Managers
Rare
Invest
Selecting
Strongly
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Business
Finance
Logistics
Marketing
Outsourcing
Talent
Area
Benchmark
Consumer
Groom
Helps
Practices
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Accord
Citizens
Commitment
Human Beings
Humanity
Powerless
Beings
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Reveals
Test
Treat
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Consistently
Globalisation
Reason
Success Business People
Early
Particularly
Invested
Quest
Service
Success Is
The Most Important
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
College Education
Engineering
Reasonable
Incentive
Quite A Lot
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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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Disadvantaged
Importance
Making A Difference
Possibility
Success World People
Enables
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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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Available
Concept
Evenings
Homes
Reasonably
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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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Canada
Customs
Groups
Indian
Integrated
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You must get engaged with people who are far less privileged than you. I think you must devote your time if not your resources... Because it is very, very important from the point of view of the development of our country.
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Engaged
Our Time
Point Of View
Privileged
Devote
Far Less
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How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.
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Quality
Indian
State Government
Better Way
Society Government Better
Run
Nation
Contribute
Particularly
Towards
Schools
Upgrade
Villages
Young People
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Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.
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Stability
Terribly
Negotiate
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Agendas
Climate Change
Consensus
Defining
Despite
Ecology
Remarkable
Fairly
Differing
Perspectives
Short Period
Widely
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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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Presentation
Significant
Usual
Currently
Skill
Upgrade
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When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Attendance
Meetings
Family Business Me
Advised
Annual
Family Business
Publicly
Resign
Stood
Traded
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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Excellence
Toes
Imposed
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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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Blessed
Fortunate
Wealth
Applied
Expects
Purposes
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Ceo
Combination
Division
Indian
Actively
Interestingly
Joint
Responsibilities
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Geography
Organisation
Strategy
Execute
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Trust
Initiative
Leader
Lessons
Needs
Philanthropy
Remarkable
Spouse
Tenacity
Three
Build
Scale
Choose
Driver
Institution
Involve
She
Whom
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I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Electrical
Engineering
Quarters
Receiving
Stanford
Undergraduate
Time Home Day
Time Home Father
Day One
Grieve
No Choice
Studying
Telephone
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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.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Setting
Original
Forms
Came
Colleges
Particularly
Individuals
Oriented
Partnerships
Schools
Socially
Taking
Universities
Villages
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I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Inspirational
Jobs
Running
Business
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