Azim Premji Quotes

“People are the key to success or extraordinary success.”

“People are the key to success or extraordinary success.”

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

“People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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