Top 117 Quotes & Sayings by Azim Premji - Page 2

The West is not producing enough engineers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.

You can do clean business in India.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Saudi Arabia has proved to be the growth engine for Wipro.

We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.

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.

Wipro Arabia is a joint venture company with Dar Al Riyadh, a well-diversified group in Saudi Arabia.

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

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 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.

Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

Western companies want access to Indian talent. That is why they outsource; that is why they come to India to set up base.

In any software work, you have IT consultancy competence required to build the systems.

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.

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

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

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.

The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

My company believes in hiring people based on merit.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity.

Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln6/26"One must have strategies to execute dreams.

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

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

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.