Azim Premji's Quotes

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

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.

Azim Premji

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 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.

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

Azim Premji

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.

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

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The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

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The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.

Azim Premji