Azim Premji Quotes

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

~ Azim Premji

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

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.

~ Azim Premji

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

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

~ Azim Premji

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

~ 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.

~ 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.

~ Azim Premji

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.

~ Azim Premji

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

~ Azim Premji

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

~ Azim Premji

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

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

~ Azim Premji

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

~ Azim Premji