Azim Premji, a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA has been at the helm of Wipro Limited since the late 1960’s, turning what was then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into the $7 billion Revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with a presence in 60 countries, that it is today. The overall Wipro group revenues are $8 billion.
Premji has been driven by one basic idea – to build an organization deeply committed to Values, with the firm belief that success in business eventually but inevitably follows. Unflinching commitment to Values continues to remain at the core of Wipro. Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things when organized into highly charged teams, and takes keen personal interest in developing leaders and teams.
Quotes of Azim Premji :
1. People are the key to success or extraordinary success.
2. 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.
3. The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesn’t affect them.
4. If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
5. 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.
6. Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
7. 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.
8. You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
9. I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
10. 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.
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