If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
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
People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
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
Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.
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
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 customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
Azim Premji
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.
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
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
With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.
Azim Premji
Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
Azim Premji
Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.
Azim Premji
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.
Azim Premji
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
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
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.
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
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
Azim Premji
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Azim Premji
You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
Azim Premji