We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
