You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I’ve really learned to appreciate that. – Azim Premji
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
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. – Azim Premji
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor. – Azim Premji
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. – Azim Premji
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
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers. – Azim Premji
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. – 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
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue. – Azim Premji
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. – 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
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
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. – 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
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
Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services. – Azim Premji
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. – Azim Premji
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
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family. – Azim Premji
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. – Azim Premji
Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children’s good. – Azim Premji
All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They’re trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers. – 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
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. – Azim Premji
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. – Azim Premji
